Amid protest by opposition parties, Lakshadweep administrator Praful Praful Khoda Patel will begin his week-long visit to the islands on Monday during which he will review the ambitious projects of the administration including Smart City, hospitals and eco-tourism.

Save Lakshadweep Forum, a platform of various political parties opposing Patel's reform measures in the islands, said the islanders will observe black day wearing black masks and raising black flags at houses during the administrator's visit concluding on June 20.

Forum leaders said they will give a representation to the administrator's office seeking the withdrawal of anti-people policies of the administration.