Thiruvananthapuram: After the ruling, Left and the Opposition Congress joined hands to support the agitating farmers, the South state Kerala is seeing a total shutdown on Monday morning.

According to reports, Markets, shops, establishments and offices are fully closed and so are all the public vehicles. Baring private vehicles, everything in the state has come to a complete standstill. After the support from the political parties, the civil society has also lent its support to the agitating farmers. The result of this was that people have preferred to remain indoors. Incidentally, on account of the state and the country observing Covid protocols for the past 18 months, Monday's protest is the first political shutdown that Kerala is witnessing. All university examinations scheduled for Monday have been postponed. However, criticism has also come as Kerala deciding to observe the shutdown comes on World Tourism Day, when the entire state and tourism activities are closed.

Like on any shutdown day, the ISRO units are all functioning and its employees are being taken to the respective units in the state capital in their buses with armed security.

CPI-M's acting state Secretary A. Vijayaraghavan, in a statement, called upon the people of Kerala to cooperate with the Bharat Bandh and to express solidarity with the agitating farmers of the country. Leader of Opposition, VD Satheeshan, told media persons that the struggle of the farmers has to be given support and hence the Congress and the opposition UDF have extended support to the Bharat Bandh on Monday. He called upon people to support the farmers who were fighting against the "draconian" farm laws.

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