NILESHWARAM: At a time when the ‘Vayalkkilikal’ agitators of Keezhattur are planning to relaunch their protest on March 25, Agriculture Minister V S Sunilkumar said he would protect the paddy fields at any cost. “There is no question of giving up the paddy fields,” he told Express. Sunilkumar said the matter had not come before him yet.  
“A committee is reviewing it as of now,” he said, without specifying which committee. “The project comes under the PWD. I’ll look into it when it comes before me,” he said. Vayalkkilikal, a collective of farmers losing their paddy fields to a proposed national highway, is facing stiff resistance from the CPM at Keezhattur near Taliparamba in Kannur district.