KOZHIKODE: The compromise talks over the candidate in the Ellatoor assembly seat ends in a fistfight. Congress workers staged protests over giving the seat to NCK. KPCC working president K V Thomas, DCC members, the UDF candidate Sulfakeer Mayuri were present during the meeting. The pandemonium occurred when the meeting was set to begin.

The Congress workers from different mandalam offices in the constituency condemned and staged protests over the leadership’s decision to leave the seat to NCK. The workers said that they will never recognize the NCK candidate. The meeting has been going on after the pandemonium. Those who raised slogans also criticized K V Thomas. M K Raghavan MP who reached the DCC office staged a walkout after witnessing the pandemonium in the office. He also said that he cannot accept Sulfakeer Mayuri. But when he was asked whether he will be willing to work for Dinesh Mani, he didn’t respond.