Kozhikode: Police saves the day

KOZHIKODE: The hartal called by BMS in the district and supported by all the Sangh-related parties was peaceful on Saturday, except for a few incidents in Feroke and rural Kozhikode. The passengers and candidates who arrived for various examinations in the district were affected. On Saturday, the Indian Council for Agricultural Research as wells as the B.Tech Lateral Entry Test were held. The city police arranged vehicles to take candidates to their respective examination centres.

Nearly 10 KSRTC buses were also used to take the candidates to the centres, where they were required to reach at 9.15am. The police also braved the heavy rain to ensure that all the candidates  reached the centres on time. Town CI PM Manoj led the team. Meanwhile, minor attacks against party offices of the CPM and BJP continued on Saturday also. While the CPM area committe office was attacked in Feroke, a BJP office was attacked in Parayanchery. The house of BJP state secretary V.K. Sajeevan was attacked in Valliyad, near Vadakara in the wee hours of Saturday. The window glasses and doors were destroyed in the stone pelting.

A CPM branch office in Thodannur was gutted after a petrol bomb was thrown into it. A country-made bomb was thrown at the house of a Congress worker in Chemmarathur but people escaped unhurt. The BJP alleged that the police was only investigating the cases where CPM party offices were attacked and ignoring the attacks on BJP offices. Vadakara MP Mullappally Ramachandran said that there were attempts to spread  ‘bomb politics’ from Kannur to Kozhikode. All-Kerala Blood donors's society provided free food for more than 2000 people who arrived in the city.