Professor TJ Joseph, a victim of attacks by PFI terrorists met PM Modi during his Kerala visit

Professor TJ Joseph, whose hand was severed by members of the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) for allegedly insulting the Prophet in a question paper 13 years ago, arrived in Marine Drive on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

To advertise here, Contact UsHe travelled to Kochi after BJP members visited him at his house and invited him to meet the PM.

 

Narendra Modi met the professor while leaving the venue after attending a meeting of the BJP Shakti Kendra (booth) in-charges at Marine Drive.

 

 

 

TJ Joseph introduced himself to the PM as a victim of the attacks by religious terrorists. Narendra Modi took a moment and then greeted him.However, post his meeting with the PM, TJ Joseph clarified that he does not have any political inclinations.

 

Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had apprehended Savad, the key suspect in the hand-chopping case in Kannur, earlier this month.

 

One Malayalam Professor TJ Joseph prepared a set of questions for the Malayalam language paper for 2nd-year BCom students. Reportedly, one of the questions asked students to punctuate a conversation between God and a character.

The conversation was extracted from the book ‘Thirakathayude Reethisasthram‘, written by Malayalam Director Kunju Muhammed.

The character in the passage was a man suffering from schizophrenia and having a constant dialogue with God. Without thinking much about the consequences, he named the man ‘Muhammed’ after the name of the Malayalam director.

However, Islamists were quick to label this as ‘blasphemy’ and interpreted the question as a conversation between Prophet Muhammad and God.

Later, the matter escalated further when the Jamaat-e-Islami-run newspaper, Madhyamam, reported about it. Subsequently, radical Islamic outfits such as the Popular Front of India (PFI), Campus Front of India (CFI), Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and even the Congress party led large-scale protests against Professor TJ Joseph.