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Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan brought a vessel containing the illustration of contaminated h2o into the Assembly during the treatment connected the revised Budget for 2026–27 connected Monday (June 22, 2026), alleging that the constabulary had utilized h2o cannons filled with contaminated h2o during an Assembly march taken retired by the All India Students’ Federation (AISF) and the All India Youth Federation (AIYF) successful protestation against the government’s determination to proceed with the PM Shri agreement.
Bringing the contented to the attraction of the Assembly, Mr. Vijayan said that the constabulary had sprayed highly contaminated h2o connected the protesters. Holding up the vessel of h2o collected from the protestation site, helium alleged that the h2o was highly unsafe and could dispersed adjacent amoebic encephalitis.
Responding to the allegation, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said that this was not the archetypal clip h2o cannons had been utilized connected protesters successful the State. However, helium clarified that the h2o utilized successful the cannons was collected from the Kerala Water Authority. It was not known whether ungraded accumulated successful the tanker had contaminated the water. He besides assured the House that the illustration would beryllium sent to a laboratory for investigating and that instructions had been issued to the Police Commissioner to analyse the matter.
The Minister further stated that the contented would beryllium taken earnestly and that steps would beryllium taken to guarantee that specified an incidental did not recur.
As Opposition members demanded further treatment connected the matter, Speaker Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, who explained that h2o had been sprayed connected him excessively from h2o cannons, said that the contented would beryllium discussed again aft the laboratory results were received.
K. Rajan, MLA, who was contiguous astatine the tract to inaugurate the march, said that they were not acrophobic of h2o cannons oregon immoderate different means employed by the constabulary to disperse the protesters. However, helium alleged that the prime of the h2o utilized was highly mediocre and that it had adjacent altered the colour of the girls’ dresses. The constabulary utilized h2o cannons 3 times connected activists who attempted to transverse the barricades erected astatine the protestation site. The protesters claimed that achromatic mud was sprayed initially, followed by yellowish murky h2o from the tank.
