THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Don’t try to surround and attack Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, said Minister Muhammad Riyas. “The chief minister is not someone who gets beaten up in such attacks. The LDF will not allow it”, he said.

The government will not be allowed to destabilize. The strike should not be turned into a riot, Riyas said. The minister also demanded an end to the calls for ‘go back’ in Delhi and ‘Zindabad’ here.

Meantime, opposition-youth organizations are staging protests against the chief minister in Kannur. The protest organized by Youth Congress in front of the Kannur guest house, where the chief minister had stayed, began at 9:30 am. The police and protesters clashed at Taliparamba at around 10:30 am.