A mass leave protest called by the Kerala NGO Association and the Kerala Land Revenue Staff Association (KLRSA) flaying the arrest of additional village officer Sileesh Thomas in connection with the Chembanoda farmer suicide has hit the functioning of several village offices in Kozhikode district.
Personal reasons
Official sources said 287 land revenue officers kept away from their work after submitting casual leave request citing personal reasons.
Of the 1,209 land revenue department officials, 863 persons reported for duty. Others had previously got sanction for leave for various other reasons, Collectorate sources said.
Claims
N.P. Balakrishnan and Sasikumar Kavattu, district committee leaders of the Congress-supported Kerala NGO Association, claimed that the strike totally paralysed the functioning of 71 out of the 118 village offices in Kozhikode.
They also argued that 642 revenue officers were part of the protest that even drew the participation of organisations in the rival fronts.
