{"id":500018,"date":"2024-01-27T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=500018"},"modified":"2024-01-27T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T09:35:47","slug":"kerala-governor-arif-khan-sfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/kerala-governor-arif-khan-sfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan stages sit-in protest as SFI members wave black flags at him, blams police failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan staged a sit-in protest on the roadside in Kollam district as Student Federation of India (SFI) members waved black flags at him. The student wings belong to the ruling party CPI(M).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kerala Governor has accused the police of their failure to control the protesters and failing to stop them from waving black flags at his convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video, he could be seen angry at law enforcement saying he would not leave the place. Police are giving them protection, he accused police present at the spot as SFI activists held a protest against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | &quot;I will not leave from here. Police is giving them protection, &quot; says Governor Arif Mohammed Khan after SFI activists held a protest against him in Kollam. Police present on the spot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQHF9PWqpr\">https:\/\/t.co\/nQHF9PWqpr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RHFFBRCh9s\">pic.twitter.com\/RHFFBRCh9s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1751135613095755954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Governor further questioned the police for their mismanagement and said if the police itself is breaking the law, who will uphold the law, he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, police registered a case against 13 SFI workers under Section 143 unlawful assembly, Section 144 says the power to issue an order in urgent cases of nuisance or apprehended danger, Section 147 punishment for rioting, Section 353 assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, Section 124 assaulting Governor of Indian Penal Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SFI workers claimed that the Governor called them bloody criminals and stated that the student body is unwilling to make any compromises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An employee of SFI alleged that individuals who were recommended by K Surendran from the BJP office were appointed to the senate without any qualifications. As a result, SFI has been organizing state-wide protests against the governor for several months now. Today&#8217;s protest was also a part of those ongoing protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor allegedly called the protestors bloody criminals, which has further triggered SFI. In response, they have decided to demonstrate their power of protest by organizing rallies and marches across the state. SFI wants to send a message that they are not willing to compromise on their demands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a conflict between the Pinarayi Vijayan government and Arif Khan. SFI activists have been protesting against the Kerala Governor, accusing him of promoting BJP-RSS nominees to the senate of various universities in Kerala using his authority as the Chancellor of universities in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Governor has accused the police of their failure to control the protesters and failing to stop them from waving black flags at his convoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":500021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Kerala Governor Arif Khan stages sit-in protest as SFI members wave black flags at him, blams police failure","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,143350],"tags":[161769,78742,82703],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/27140150\/kk.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500018"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=500018"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=500018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->