The Congress and the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) protests demanding Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's resignation turned into acrimonious scenes of violence and chaotic confrontations between protesters and the police across the State on Wednesday.
The State has been reeling from days of street violence after the UAE gold smuggling case suspect accused Mr. Vijayan of complicity in misusing the mission's diplomatic channel to smuggle gold and foreign currency during the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF) administration.
(The LDF has denied the allegations and “depicted” Swapna as a proxy for the “Congress-BJP axis”, plotting to undermine the government by denigrating the political executive.)
