 Abdullakutty received the BJP membership from party working president Mr. J.P. Nadda, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr.V.Muraleedharan, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Minister of Steel, Mr. Bhupender Yadav Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and National General Secretary of the BJP, Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP (Upper house) and the vice-chairman of the Kerala wing of Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was among those present to greet him.A leader of Students' Federation of India during his college days, Abdullakutty became the General Secretary of Calicut University Student's Union in 1989.