Oppn intensifies protests seeking Veena's resignation
Youth Congress, KSU, Mahila Congress and Youth League organized protests across the state, including Palakkad, Kochi, Kollam, Kannur and Mananthavady, seeking the resignation of the health minister.
In the state capital, Youth Congress organized a protest march to the official residence of the health minister, Thycaud House. The march resulted in a face off between the protesters and police for hours as the YC workers refused to disperse even after repeated use of water cannons by police.
The YC activists tried to climb the walls of the health minister's residence. However, police, who were present in large numbers, managed to prevent them from entering the building.
Police used water cannons several times against their attempt to breach the barricades. Police later arrested and removed the protesters from the scene. The face-off lasted for hours on the busy Thycaud-Vazhuthacaud road.
Clashes also occurred during a Congress march to the Sasthamkotta taluk hospital in Kollam, demanding the health minister's resignation, injuring the block president and others.
In Palakkad, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala, while launching a protest by the Mahila Congress, said that chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan ought to have sought the health minister's resignation before going abroad in view of her alleged "inefficiency", "indifference" and "grave mistakes".
In Pathanamthitta, Youth Congress and BJP continued their protests. Protest marches were taken out to the residence of the minister at Kumbazha and Angadickal as well as the DMO office and General Hospital.
YC workers protested over the dilapidated condition of the E Block at the General Hospital. They staged a symbolic protest by placing pillars to support the walls.
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