SFI stages Statewide protests in Kerala over NEET-UG exam irregularities
Police use water cannons to disperse Students Federation of India activists during a march to the BSNL office in Thrissur on Thursday in protest against the police brutality on agitating students and demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. | Photo Credit: K.K. Hundreds of SFI activists took part in the demonstration as they raised slogans against the BJP-led Union government and demanded that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign.As protesters attempted to breach police barricades and reach the premises, police used water cannons to stop them. The activists, however, refused to disperse and continued their protest.Similar protests were held in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kannur, Kasaragod and other places.
- ▪Police use water cannons to disperse Students Federation of India activists during a march to the BSNL office in Thrissur on Thursday in protest against the police brutality on agitating students and demanding the resignation of Union Educa
- ▪Hundreds of SFI activists took part in the demonstration as they raised slogans against the BJP-led Union government and demanded that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign.As protesters attempted to breach police barricades an
- ▪The activists, however, refused to disperse and continued their protest.Similar protests were held in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kannur, Kasaragod and other places.
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The Students’ Federation of India (SFI), the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], intensified its agitation against the Union government over the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG examination by taking out protest marches across Kerala on Thursday (July 23, 2026) in solidarity with the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) ongoing agitation in New Delhi. Police use water cannons to disperse Students Federation of India activists during a march to the BSNL office in Thrissur on Thursday in protest against the police brutality on agitating students and demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. | Photo Credit: K.K.
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