Thiruvananthapuram: Service organisations of secretariat employees owing allegiance to the UDF and LDF clashed at the Secretariat premises on Wednesday over putting up flex boards defaming party leaders like Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan. When the clash got out of hand, security officials removed all flex boards put up by service organisation on the secretariat premises.
Sources in the secretariat said the issue was sparked off after both the pro-UDF and pro-LDF service organisations started putting up flex boards defaming party leaders over the last couple of days. The issue came to a boil when pro-UDF service organisation leaders put up a flex board defaming CPM leader Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday and the pro-LDF service organisation leaders demanded that they remove them.
The flex war reached a flash point when pro-LDF service organisation leaders put up huge flex boards with pictures of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy along with solar scam accused Saritha S Nair with the caption saying they were the “lucky mascot” of the Secretariat.
