The Popular Front of India (PFI) is a Muslim organisation that is seen as radical, its cadres present mostly across Kerala and Karnataka. Some of its members are alleged to have suspected links with organisations like al Qaeda, a charge the PFI has denied in the past.We travel to Udayagiri Mysore, where its leaders were campaigning for the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) candidate for the Karnataka elections. SDPI, which shares cadres with the PFI, has fielded three candidates for the Karnataka assembly elections – Gulbarga North, Chikpete in Bengaluru and Narasimharaja constituency in Mysuru.