AGARTALA, Jan 20 (PTI): Opposition CPI (M) leader in Tripura Manik Sarkar on Friday appealed to all anti-BJP parties to join a rally that would be taken out by the leaders and workers of the two parties.
Addressing a public meeting in poll-bound Tripura’s Hrishyamukh Assembly constituency, he alleged that “democracy has been destroyed in the state under the BJP rule, with opposition parties failing to carry out regular activities, and people living in fear”.
The leader of opposition in Tripura Assembly claimed that at least 25 CPI (M) functionaries were killed during the 59-month-long BJP-IPFT rule.
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“Hrishyamukh representative Badal Chowdhury, party legislator Sudhan Das and former minister Ratan Bhowmik had also come under attack by BJP-harboured goons,” Sarkar said.
“Despite FIR registrations, mentioning names of all potential accused, not a single criminal has been apprehended by the police yet. This is why we say that a jungle raj has been instituted in Tripura, where the police, too, can’t act independently,” he stated.
The former CM claimed that “minorities were the worst sufferers” in the BJP regime.
“They were not allowed to freely perform rituals, like the ones observed during Eid. Development in minority-dominated areas was largely ignored since the saffron party came to power in the state,” he said.
Noting that clashes had erupted at Majlishpur in West Tripura district and Bamabcherra in Dhalai district, despite the Election Commission’s assurance of “zero poll violence”, he said, “Our leaders have taken up the matter with the poll panel. I have heard that a probe has been ordered into the Majlishpur incident.”
Sarkar alleged that the clashes had taken place in the presence of police and central forces.
“We will have to wait to see the findings of the report that gets submitted to the ECI because the attacks had occurred in presence of police and central forces,” he said.
Elections to the 60-member Assembly will be held on February 16.
