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Kerala: How 'fitness programme' MEC 7 is operating via WhatsApp groups and PFI admins

Two years after the Union Ministry of Home Affairs banned the Popular Front of India, the radical Islamic outfit is regaining its stronghold in Kerala through a ‘fitness programme.’ The programme is named Multi-Exercise Combination 7 and has connections with Jamaat-e-Islami and the proscribed PFI. The ‘fitness programme’ reportedly operates via WhatsApp groups, which are in turn coordinated by extremists …

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'Campaign For Islamic Nation': What Is 21-Min Fitness Programme At Centre Of Political Row In Kerala?

The multi-exercise combination fitness programme has triggered a political row in Kerala as BJP and CPI have alleged the involvement of the banned Popular Front of India and Jamaat-e-Islami in promoting the workout plan. As the name suggests, the fitness programme has seven categories of workouts like aerobics, simple exercises, yoga, meditation, acupressure, breathing exercises and face massage. CPI Kozhikode …

CPI(M) leader retracts remark linking popular fitness group to extremists

Communist Party of India Kozhikode Secretary P Mohanan has withdrawn his controversial statement linking members of the banned Popular Front of India to MEC 7, a popular fitness regimen in the Malabar region. Mohanan initially claimed that MEC 7, known as the Multi-Exercise Combination, had been infiltrated by extremist groups such as Jamaat-e-Islami, Social Democratic Party of India, and PFI, …

Islamic radicals infiltrating MEC 7 fitness units across north Kerala?

A fitness programme in Kerala, Multi-Exercise Combination 7, is in the eye of the storm amid claims that the banned Popular Front of India and Jama'at-e-Islami were using its over 1,000 units to spread radicalism. The accusation that the MEC 7 operates through WhatsApp groups, with PFI leaders as admins, has brought Kerala's ruling CPI and the opposition BJP onto …