KOZHIKODE: The Malabar Nair Samajam, a feeder organization of the Bharatheeya Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), is on an expansion mode in the Perambra constituency where it is set to contest under the BDJS banner.
However, many in the community allege that MNS is also extracting huge sums of money for membership fee and that it had denied the Perambra seat to many who had refused to shell out up to '50 lakh for ‘strengthening’ the organisational network.
A member of the community who had claimed to be a frontrunner for contesting in the constituency told DC that the membership fee was only Rs 1000 earlier. Now those who want the membership have to first shell out 1 lakh, it was alleged.
MNS and its leader Manjery Bhaskara Pillai have been in the limelight for the last many years when he formed the parallel organisation of Nairs, alongside the Nair Service Society (NSS), the once unquestioned community organisation.
The BDJS had announced Mr K. Sukumaran Nair, a member of MNS, as its candidate for Perambra a few days back.
Dismissing the allegations, Mr Bhaskara Pillai told DC that his organisation never received any sort of money either for membership or for fielding candidates. “I know who is spreading such rumours,” he said and added that a member of the community from Koyilandy was involved as he was denied the seat by the BDJS state committee. “We are charging only '1000 as lifetime membership fee,” he added. He was not greedy to amass money and nobody who knew him would tell such lies, he said.
