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Pressure mounts to remove Thabsheera from Kerala’s Perinthalmanna block panchayat
The Hindu
The former general secretary of Haritha, she spearheaded face-off with IUML over sexual harassment charges against MSF leaders
Pressure is mounting on the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to remove Najma Thabsheera T., former general secretary of Haritha, from her Perinthalmanna block panchayat membership. Ms. Thabsheera was elected to the block panchayat council from Thirurkad in the 2020 local body election on the IUML banner. She was the one who spearheaded the recent face-off with the party over an allegation of sexual harassment against State leaders of the Muslim Students Federation (MSF). Haritha is the women’s wing of the MSF. The IUML dissolved the Haritha State committee led by Ms. Thabsheera after she refused to abide by the party’s demand to withdraw the complaint that she and nine other members had filed before the State Women’s Commission against MSF leaders.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.