The government appeared to find itself on the backfoot on Wednesday after the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition walked out of the Assembly, accusing Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of brazenly condoning the alleged brutal assault on Kerala Students Union (KSU) activists by Student Federation of India (SFI) members at Government Law College here late Tuesday.
It did not help the government’s case that a grainy video footage of the violence had gone viral. The recording showed a gang, purportedly SFI activists, set about KSU activist Safna Yakub and her fellow members with fists and dragging them through the road.