Even as the Supreme Court and the Kerala High Court gave the go-ahead to the ongoing social impact assessment for land acquisition for the semi-high-speed rail project in Kerala, the emotional protest of the people continued on Wednesday also with many even staging threats to end life by suicide.
In Kollam district, a section of people raised stiff resistance against the laying of demarcation stones.
Some families reportedly threatened to end life by suicide by opening cooking gas cylinders and by hanging. Owing to the protest the officials withdrew without laying the demarcation stones.
Even as the CPM and its youth wing DYFI were carrying out door-to-door campaigns to address the concerns of the people, it also faced stiff resistance in many places.
