A 49-year-old man died after setting himself on fire near the venue of BJP leader CK Padmanabhan’s sit-down protest, against what he described as the Kerala government’s anti-Sabarimala stand, in Thiruvananthapuram early on Thursday. The man, who was later identified as Venugopalan Nair, suffered 60% burns and was rushed to the Government Medical College hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. NDTV