Youth Congress workers staged a strong protest and waived the black flag in protest demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in connection with the diplomatic gold smuggling case, before the Kannur Government Guest house, on Monday, June 13, 2022.
Mr. Vijayan had reached Kannur on Sunday evening. Though CM had decided to stay at his own house in Pinarayi, but on the request of police, who briefed him of the security arrangements, later moved to the Kannur Guest house.
The youth Congress workers, however, reached the guest house and staged a protest on Monday. They tried to break the barricades when police used water cannons to disperse them. But when the protestors refused to move, the police used force to arrest and remove them. Those arrested were transferred to the AR camp in a police bus. A youth worker, who showed a black when the CM’s convoy left the guest house, was allegedly manhandled by the CPI (M) workers.
