Thrissur, Aug. 12 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) workers engaged in a verbal dual sloganeering against each other in Thrissur, Kerala. CPI-M workers took out a protest march towards the office of Union Minister Suresh Gopi.

Police stopped the workers a few meters away from the office. There was a signboard of the Minister's office on the roadside. CPI-M activists poured black oil on the board. In response, the BJP took out a march towards the CPIM district office in Thrissur. CPIM workers gathered outside the office and tried to take out a match. Both sides started sloganeering at each other, and police intervened and stood in the middle.

According to the Thrissur city police Commissioner,...