While multiple black flag demonstrations were staged at Kollam on the second day of Navakerala Sadas, the protest at Chinnakada turned violent after the members of Democratic Youth Federation of India and Youth Congress clashed. The scuffle erupted when the Youth Congress activists waved black flags at the Navakerala motorcade and DYFI workers tried to stop them. Youth Congress workers alleged that they were brutally manhandled by the police and DYFI that they were forced to retaliate.
“They attacked us after the motorcade passed. We were protesting peacefully and they suddenly started assaulting us and the police didn’t intervene. The real scuffle took place inside Bishop Jerome Nagar where they vandalised some shops and we were forced to fight back using canes and pepper spray,” said a Youth Congress leader.
