Perhaps realising that their impulsive aggression on October 8 had cost them politically, particularly Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's body-shaming remark, the ruling side remained uncharacteristically calm in the Assembly on Thursday. All attempts by the agitating UDF members to draw them to the well, apparently to spark yet another confrontation, were unsuccessful. 

Even the UDF attempts to force a tense situation by taking on the Watch & Ward staff guarding the Speaker's podium was quickly doused by Speaker A N Shamseer by suspending the proceedings. Finally when the house reconvened, Opposition Leader V D Satheeshan had no choice but to declare that the opposition was observing total non-cooperation with the Assembly proceedings and staged a walk out. And evidently to keep the Sabarimala issue alive, Satheesan warned that the UDF would stage strong agitation both inside and outside the Assembly if action was not taken against people "who had sold Lord Ayyappa's 'dwarapalaka' sculpture to crorepatis and also those who aided and abetted this sale". This was the fourth consecutive day the UDF had refused to participate in the Assembly proceedings.

On August 8, Satheesan had claimed outside the Assembly that former devaswom minister Kadakampally Surendran knew the crorepati to whom the Ayyappa idol was sold, and Surendran, in turn, had challenged the Opposition Leader asking him to reveal the name of the crorepati if he had the courage and self-respect.

Though the House did not witness unruly scenes like the last day, the day began on a tense note. The Speaker asked the W&W staff to seize the protest  banner the UDF members stretched before him, blocking his view. While a W&W staff tried to take it, the banner was torn. An apparently enraged Muslim League MLA Najeeb Kanthapuram rushed to the staff who caused the tear. But senior leaders quickly intervened and dissuaded him from getting physical with the W&W staff. The UDF then unfurled a second banner and stretched it before the Speaker. Though the Speaker wanted this banner, too, seized, the W&W staff did not oblige. After this, the entire Question Hour was uneventful; the UDF raised slogans and the ruling side went about the official business. The UDF members did occasionally try to provoke the ruling side, particularly the young and impetuous LDF backbenchers. But parliamentary affairs minister M B Rajesh was seen going around telling the LDF members to remain calm, to not respond to the UDF incitement to draw them into a conflict. 

Finally, when the Zero Hour began without the Speaker giving the Opposition Leader a chance to speak, the UDF members scaled up their aggression and made an attempt to storm the Speaker's podium. Before things could flare up, the Speaker suspended business and walked out. 

When he returned after half an hour, the Speaker said that the W&W chief marshall was injured in the UDF violence and was taken to the Medical College. The Opposition Leader was dismissive of the information, said it was the same chief marshall who had earlier produced a fake medical certificate. The Speaker, without realising that he was admitting to an earlier blunder, said it was not the same person.