The Congress has upped its ante in the tense stand-off with the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] following the widely condemned Students Federation of India (SFI) attack on the regional office of Rahul Gandhi, MP, at Kalpetta in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.
Aggressive street protests erupted across the State for the second day on Saturday in the politically turbulent aftermath of Friday's violence. In Kottayam, several persons on both sides were injured when Congress activists clashed with the police.
In Wayanad, senior Congress leaders marched in front of hundreds of Opposition activists in an edgy anti-CPI(M) protest in Kalpetta town. The police lined the route to pre-empt further violence.