Hours-long tension between the Congress and Youth Congress (YC) activists and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists over the Navakerala Sadas in Kunnathunadu Assembly constituency culminated in the YC mandalam committee office in Kolancherry getting ransacked. The Congress and the Youth Congress leadership alleged it to be the act of CPI(M) and DYFI, an allegation that was shot down by the other side. A protest march led by the Ernakulam District Congress Committee president Muhammed Shiyas was staged in Kolancherry town. No one was at the office. Mr. Shiyas said a bigger march and public meeting to protest the alleged violence would be held in Kolancherry town on Wednesday evening. Earlier in the day, the threat of a pitched battle between the two sides loomed large at Puthencruz town for a while before the police intervened to defuse the situation.