Kerala Students Union stages protests across Kerala over police lathicharge on its members

KSU activists held protests in Kerala against police lathicharge. Educational institutions declared holiday due to strike. KSU marched to Secretariat, Adoor police station & Minister's residence. Police used water cannons, lathicharge. KSU protested over election results of Sree Kerala Varma College. Senior Congress leader termed police action 'unjustified' & 'unpardonable'.

The Kerala Students Union (KSU) on November 7, 2023 staged protests in various parts of Kerala against the police lathicharge against some of its members.

Some educational institutions declared a holiday due to the strike called by the KSU, the student wing of the Congress.

A few KSU activists took out a protest march to the Secretariat in the heart of the State capital and tried to remove the barricades set up there, following which water cannons were used by the police in an attempt to disperse them. Thereafter, the protesters gathered there for some time, raised slogans against the police and then dispersed.

A protest march by KSU activists to the Adoor police station in Pathanamthitta district was dispersed by the police by reportedly resorting to lathicharge.

The KSU had on November 6 called a State-wide strike in educational institutions after some of its members, including a woman, were injured in a lathicharge by the police.

The incident occurred when they carried out a protest march to the residence of Higher Education Minister R. Bindu.