Braving heavy rain, hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists participated in a siege of the Secretariat called by the party on Tuesday demanding the resignation of Finance Minister K.M. Mani over his alleged involvement in the bar bribery case.
Party workers from various parts of the State had converged in the capital city on Monday evening itself to lay siege to the Secretariat. On Tuesday, the activists squatted in front of the second gate of the Secretariat from early morning raising slogans against the Congress government.
Though it was raining heavily, they waited patiently for the address by party national president Amit Shah. He reached the venue at around 12.15 p.m., and in his half-an-hour-speech exhorted the party activists to work towards achieving a “Congress-free Kerala” during the Assembly elections to be held next year.
The police, as announced earlier, diverted traffic at several points.
