Communist Party of India Kozhikode Secretary P Mohanan has withdrawn his controversial statement linking members of the banned Popular Front of India to MEC 7, a popular fitness regimen in the Malabar region.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, …