Sadiq Ali Thangal elected as next IUML Kerala unit chief

Panakkad Syed Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal, IUML high-powered committee member and Malappuram district president, has been elected as the next state president of the party.

It is the practice in the IUML to elevate the Malappuram president to the post of state president.

Panakkad Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal was the Malappuram president for 18 years.

55-year-old Sadiq Ali Thangal has been holding the reins of the party ever since Hyder Ali Thangal opted out from public functions owing to ill-health.