Tension escalated at Mullur in Thiruvananthapuram, the hub of fishermen’s protests against the Vizhinjam seaport, on Monday as the police, deployed in the area to prevent untoward incidents in the project site, blocked the entry of a vehicle carrying food to the protesters at the venue.
In the morning, the protesters who reached the venue in vehicles from different areas barged onto the port premises disrupting the port activities.
They went close to the under-construction breakwater inside the port and greeted the fishermen who laid siege to the port from the sea from the breakwater. Later, they refused to go outside the project site and squatted inside the port. Though the police asked them to vacate the place, the protestors said they would leave the place by evening.
