THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala has asked the LDF activists to end the violence unleashed by them in different parts of the State following the front's victory in the Assembly elections.

In a statement here on Saturday, he said that he had received reports of LDF activists roughing up the UDF activists, damaging their houses and encroaching into the party offices. In Alappuzha district, DCC office-bearers who sustained injuries had to be hospitalised. In Nemom, two persons were injured and hospitalised.

The Pramadam mandalam president of the Congress in Konni was also attacked. Water supply to the house of the booth agent at Malapattam in Kannur was disrupted. LDF activists allegedly unleashed violence in Karalayi and Mutheyidam colonies, Malappuram. The office-bearers of the DIC(K) were attacked at Padiyoor in Irikkur. Party offices were damaged at Arangettuparambu, Illathuthazhe and Chundangapoyka. The house of the Edava grama panchayat president also came under attack.

The SFI activists who went on a rampage on the campus of the Cochin University of Science and Technology damaged the car of the Controller of Examinations and threw stones at the office and the hostel.

Mr. Chennithala alleged that the CPI(M) was organising the attacks to avenge its defeat in the Haripad, Pattambi, Nemom, Konni and Idukki Assembly constituencies.

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