In Kollam, around 5 buses were vandalised and protesters blocked the highway near the railway station.
Sporadic violence has been reported from various parts of Kerala during a hartal organised on Tuesday by a Joint Council against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The hartal saw around 40 organisations coming together including the Welfare Party, SDPI, Dalit Human Rights Movement, BSP and Porattam. Most mainstream political parties including the Left parties, Congress and IUML had distanced themselves from the hartal saying that they did not want CAA to be depicted as a problem for Muslims. Moreover, these parties also do not want to be associated with the SDPI brand of politics. The Kerala police have detained 233 people in connection with the hartal. The police has detained 55 people in Ernakulam, 51 in Thrissur and 35 in Idukki. In Palakkad 21 people have been detained, 13 in Kannur, 12 in Kottayam and 8 in Wayanad. According to reports, stone pelting incidents were reported from Peroorkada in Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kozhikode and Aluva in Kochi. A state owned bus coming from Velankanni in Tamil Nadu was targeted by stone pelters as it reached Walayar in Palakkad at around 3 am. In Kollam, around 5 buses were vandalised and protesters blocked the highway near the railway station. The police had earlier declared the hartal as illegal as the Joint Council had failed to get police permission. The Kerala High Court has mandated that permission for hartal should be sought seven days ahead. Hartal supporters manhandled Circle Inspector Abdul Raheem in Kasaragode and grabbed his collar while he was trying to remove them from blocking a lorry in the town.In Kozhikode, around 30 workers of the SDPI have reportedly been arrested for taking a protest march in the city. In Pathanamthitta, around 35 SDPI workers have been taken into custody for a march at Adoor in the district. Hartal supporters blocked a lorry in Kannur near Caltex in the city, took off the key and ran away with it. Kannur police arrested workers of the Welfare party for blocking the road. Normal life however remained largely unaffected especially in the southern parts of the state. In the northern part of Kerala too, the hartal has been partial so far. The hartal began at 6 am and will go on till 6 pm.
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