On SFI’s black flag protest against him, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan says, “Police have been prevented from acting against these rowdies, criminals. This was the fifth incident. The rods on which they had the black flags, they were using those rods to hit the car. There are so many scratches on the car. Everything is being done under his direction (Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan). It is he who has hatched this conspiracy. These people are working on the instructions of the Chief Minister…I do not try to scare anybody, there is no question I shall be scared of anything.”