High drama prevailed in Kothamangalam town around Monday midnight when the police swooped down and arrested Mathew Kuzhalnadan, MLA, and Ernakulam district Congress Committee president Mohammed Shiyas.
Mr. Kuzhalnadan was arrested from a tent put up at the Post Office Junction in Kothamangalam town where he was on an indefinite hunger strike with fellow legislator Eldhose Kunnappillil demanding a permanent solution to the human-wildlife conflicts across the State.
Attempt to arrest Mr. Kunnappillil was resisted by senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala who had earlier inaugurated the hunger strike. The police had taken him into a police vehicle from which Mr. Chennithala got him released, said Congress sources.
