A tense situation prevailed at Kerala University when Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan arrived to inaugurate the office of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-affiliated workers’ union on the Senate House campus at Palayam on Friday.
The proposed inauguration of the Kerala University Employees Sangh office had run into rough weather when its members allegedly encroached on an unused building which used to function as a National Service Scheme (NSS) office and erected a board outside a day ago.
With protests by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Congress-affiliated unions brewing against the move, university authorities locked the building after clarifying that the Kerala University Employees Sangh had not been granted permission to use the premises.
