KANNUR: Vayalkkilikal, the action council leading Keezhattoor paddy farmers’ anti-bypass campaign, will restore the temporary shed set ablaze allegedly by CPM workers, at a mammoth function on March 25 in the same place near Taliparamba. They burnt the shed on Wednesday afternoon soon after the police took away the protestors when they blocked surveyors of National Highway Authority preparing to lay border stones for a bypass through the fields. According to Suresh Keezhattoor, leader of the action council, restoring the samara pandal, which was the centre of action and deliberations at each stage of protests will be the first and most important step in resuming the agitation.
“It will be a mega function in which all prominent nature activists and nature lovers of the state would participate,” he said. “I still feel so sorry for CPM workers, my former colleagues, who destroyed the pandal soon after police arrested us on Wednesday. A party like CPM which has a history of agitations, should not have done this.” Meanwhile, police registered cases against 12 CPM workers for setting fire to the shed and throwing remnants in the nearby stream.
