BJP unit chief hits out at island admin

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Lakshadweep unit president Mohammad Kasim on Tuesday joined the protests against the island’s administrator Praful Khoda Patel’s new regulations a day after Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Congress MPs aired their reservations about these. The issue has snowballed into a controversy with all parties closing their ranks . Strangely, the second in command in the BJP’s island unit said the charges were a mere “misinformation campaign” and said he was not aware of Kasim’s latest position.