New Delhi: A brawl between rival student union protesters in Kerala on Tuesday led Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan engaging in a war of words in the ongoing assembly session.
Raising the issue, Satheesan said that the attack, which began in the college campus, reached the homes where the KSU students are staying.
Notably, the fight broke out between the students of CPI-M backed SFI and Congress backed KSU in the Law College. Safina, a female KSU activist suffered the worst attack along with two other male students who got badly beaten up by the SFI protesters.
All the three students are currently admitted to the state-run Medical College and hospital.
"The lady KSU activist was attacked and the police remained as mute witness to the barbaric act of the SFI students. The scenario in the state is such that one cannot distinguish between goons and SFI students. The Chief Minister has given a license to these SFI students to attack all their adversaries and is protecting them as you behave like a party secretary. This is dangerous and this has to change," news agency IANS quoted Satheesan as saying.
Lashing out at the Opposition, Chief Minister Vijayan said that Satheesan has been behaving in an inappropriate manner and appears to have lost his bearings after his party suffered a massive loss in the assembly polls.
“It is true that a clash occurred between members of KSU and SFI. The students who got injured in the clash were treated at the medical college. A case was registered at Museum Police Station today. Police says that students from KSU and SFI were injured,” news agency ANI quoted the chief minister as saying.
Meanwhile, the state capital witnessed a swarm of KSU activists, led by three Congress legislators, protesting in the streets while the assembly session was going on. They were later arrested.
There were demonstrations by the KSU activists in other parts of the state as they took to the streets demanding action against the SFI workers.
The police have also registered multiple cases against both the rival student union members.
Notably, the Congress led opposition is set to raise this issue on Thursday with a detailed account of how their student activists are being gagged up across the state by the SFI students.