High tension prevailed across the State capital as irate Congress workers engaged in confrontation with the police when they protested against the vandalism at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s MP office by Students Federation of India (SFI) workers in Wayanad on Friday.
Congress activists converged at various points in the city around 6.30 p.m., shortly after news of the attack at Kalpetta began to trickle in. While a group led by District Congress Committee (DCC) president Palode Ravi took out a march towards the Secretariat, some Youth Congress protesters marched towards the AKG Centre. Both marches were blocked by the police when they converged near the Martyrs’ Column in Palayam.
Several flex boards and posters erected by the government, CPI (M) and various Left-learning organisations were torn by Congress activists along the route.
