Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan's Z security cover extended amid SFI's black flag protest

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Arif Mohammed Khan informed Kerala Raj Bhavan. The move comes after Kerala's governor faced protest from activists, allegedly belonging to Student Federation of India (SFI) in Kollam on Saturday.

High drama played out in Kollam district in Kerala on Saturday when Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, facing SFI's black flag protest, got off his car, took on the agitating Left student wing members, sat on the roadside and hit out at the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in what seemed to be yet another chapter in the Raj Bhavan vs ruling LDF face-off. A visibly angry Arif Khan accused Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of "promoting lawlessness in the state." "It is him who is giving direction to the police to give protection to these lawbreakers against whom, including the state president of the organisation (SFI) many criminal cases are pending in the courts," Khan charged.

Governor Arif Khan also said he had not staged a protest but was waiting for the police to show him the FIR copy following his demand for action against the protesting members of the Students Federation of India, affiliated to the CPI-M. The dramatic scenes were witnessed at Nilamel in Kollam, located about 40 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

After sitting there for over two hours, Khan left the place only after the police showed him a copy of the FIR lodged against 17 SFI activists under non-bailable provisions of the law. The Kerala Governor also questioned whether the protestors would have been allowed to line up alongside the police on the roadside if the CM was passing through that route.

Kerala Governor Khan also claimed that the protestors tried to hit his vehicle. The Governor, while on his way from Thiruvananthapuram to attend a programme