Kochi, July 30: Protesting against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, over his alleged connection in the gold smuggling case, Congress youth workers blocked the convoy of the CM and showed a black flag to CM.
Besides this, they also demanded his resignation. This was the third time that congress showed the black flag to the CM in a single day.
It should be noted that CM had two programmes in Kochi today– the first one at Infopark in Kakkanad while the second programme took place at the government press in Kakkanad.
In the first incident, the protestors showed a black flag to the CM when he was going to attend the first program at Infopark, while the second and third ones took place while he was returning from the programmes.
The police confirmed that the aforesaid protest was led by Youth Congress State Secretary Linto P Antu wherein the Opposition was demanding the CM’s resignation over the Kerala Gold Smuggling case.
In the second incident, besides the black flag, a youth congress worker Sony Panamthanam also cracked the glass of the police jeep when the personnel were taking him in the custody. The Kerala Police have registered a case against him under the non-bailable offence.
While in the third incident a black flag was shown for the third time when he was in Kochi’s Kalamassery while returning from the programme.
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