In protest against the government failure to honour the assurances it had given to the endosulfan victims, the public forum for endosulfan-affected would launch an indefinite hunger strike in front of the secretariat here on June 23. According to forum president T Sobha and secretary Ambalathara Krishnan, the state government had failed to provide the relief it promised to the victims after the strike in front of the Cliff House in January. Though the government had agreed to give the financial assistance recommended by the national human rights commission, it did not keep its word. It was giving assistance on instalment basis in only 15 panchayats. As many as 5,500 people in 27 panchayats and three corporation wards in Kasaragod were detected with health problems connected with the use of endosulfan. Though it was promised that the debts of farmers on the verge of suicide would be written off and the report of Justice Ramachandran Nair would be rejected, the government failed to honour such demands. Justice Ramachandran’s report gives the victims choice to either accept the tribunal’s compensation or battle it out in court at their own expense.