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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A march to Secretariat taken out by ABVP activists in protest against the state government’s decision to implement Khader Commission report, turned violent leading to lathicharge and bursting of teargas shells by police to disperse the agitators here on Monday. Nine ABVP workers have been injured in the melee. According to the police, the ABVP activists started pelting stones at the police when they tried to block the march near the Cantonment gate of the Secretariat around 11.30 am. Water cannons and tear gas shells were also used to disperse the protestors numbering around a hundred. The state committee of ABVP announced statewide strike on Tuesday against the police action..