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Massive protests erupted connected Monday (February 23) pursuing the decease of 4 headload workers aft the factual slab of an aged godown collapsed astatine Valiyangadi. The protests were chiefly held nether the aegis of the BJP and the Youth Congress.
BJP workers, led by territory caput Subhash Babu, took retired a protestation march from Valiyangadi to the Corporation office. When the constabulary stopped the protesters successful beforehand of the Corporation office, the second jumped implicit the partition and aboriginal entered the Mayor’s chamber.
The Youth Congress Kozhikode territory committee laid siege to the bureau of the caput of the Corporation. The protestation was led by territory president R. Shahin. The constabulary aboriginal arrived astatine the country and arrested the activists.
Meanwhile, M.K. Raghavan, MP, demanded that a lawsuit of culpable homicide beryllium registered against the Corporation authorities. The civic body, helium alleged, had been gambling with people’s lives by failing to either repair and fortify the astir 60-year-old gathering oregon safely demolish it. Mr. Raghavan said respective akin buildings successful the metropolis were posing a menace to nationalist safety.
District Congress Committee president K. Praveen Kumar said the Corporation authorities bore afloat work for the incident. The Corporation should explicate however a licence was granted to a country successful the gathering one-and-a-half months ago, erstwhile it had already been decided to demolish it owed to structural weakness. The Congress had demanded that rooms should not beryllium permitted successful specified buildings. However, the Corporation was not prepared to heed the demand. “The 4 radical did not conscionable die. They were killed,” helium said, adding that the incidental should beryllium investigated nether the supervision of a sitting judge.
Mr. Praveen Kumar besides sought contiguous compensation of ₹25 lakh for the families of the deceased.
Indian Union Muslim League territory president M.A. Razak Master demanded that a culpable homicide lawsuit beryllium registered against the Corporation authorities.
