Summary:
The deceased person has no political background. However, the BJP leaders are of the view that the person choosing the BJP's protest venue for suicide itself showed that he did so in protest against Sabarimala conundrum. "He was even yelling it out," they claimed. Venugopalan Nair tried to rush to the BJP protest pandal just after midnight on Thursday in a frenzy after he torched himself.However, police have refitted the BJP narrative and said the deceased person had in his death statement clarified that his act was owing to dipression and nothing else did bother him. The Taxi Tempo Owners Association has arranged a parallel emergency service for people who reach Trivandrum centre for visiting Regional Cancer Centre and medical college etc.No untoward incidents have so far been reported from anywhere in the state in connection with the harthal..