Violence in Tripura after assembly election results: CPM offices set ablaze; Congress office ransacked; parties blames BJP ‘goons’
Friday, 11 March 2022 (15:37 IST)
Agartala: After announcement of results of five state assembly elections on Thursday, allegedly ruling BJP in Tripura has resorted to attacks on the opposition CPI-M and Congress across the state.
At least three CPM party offices were set ablaze, while a Congress office was ransacked.
The CPI-M state secretary Jitendra Choudhury alleged that BJP backed goons have set fire in some of the CPI-M party offices in West Tripura and Dhalai districts from the victory processions.
Today a new dimension of terror has been added by the BJP in Tripura, which has been going on for last 4 years. Soon after receiving the news of wining 4 state election, BJP has brought down horrific terrorism in Tripura. News of attacks are coming across the state.@cpimspeakpic.twitter.com/Biy7dxLkJo
As many as five houses including CPI-M state committee member Pabitra Kar was attacked and ransacked.
At least eight people of a minority family in Sepahijala were badly assaulted and shifted to the hospital in critical condition at night, Choudhury complained, adding that the innocent supporters of opposition parties had been harassed in several places and served notice to pay a handsome amount to BJP party.
“It's a complete chaos and breaks down law and order in the state. Our leaders informed the local police and this time in most of the incidents police responded promptly, as a result, the miscreants couldn't do much harm but to flee. There was not a single statement from BJP state president or Chief Minister or any minister against the hooliganism in the name of their election success in other states,” Choudhury alleged.
Most, unfortunately, BJP top leaders including the Mayor of Agartala were found leading victory rally with several numbers of bulldozers fixing the cutout of Prime Minister, Chief Minister and other BJP leaders in the front terrorizing the situation by sending a message to bulldoze the opposition and the people who oppose BJP, he observed and added, it's a very shameful act of the leaders of a responsible political party.
However, he reiterated that the Uttar Pradesh election results would not have any impact in the upcoming assembly poll in Tripura, barely less than a year. The 2023 elections here will hold on Tripura's issue, not based on Uttar Pradesh issue because people here are more enlightened and maximum people are aggrieved with the governance of the BJP-IPFT government.
Choudhury demanded to stop violence and allow opposition parties to do their activities.
Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Birajit Sinha also echoed the same and said that the election result has indicated that all the anti-BJP parties need to come together to fight against the rightist-communal power headed by BJP. They fought elections using the administrative, financial, and muscle power keeping the democracy at stake in four states but it would not allow repeating in Tripura.
“We are prepared and we would send BJP out from the state. Youth are not happy here and corruption is at full scale, we will win the 2023 elections,” Sinha claimed, adding that Congress would take initiative for integration of all democratic and anti-BJP parties to be united before the next election in the state. (UNI)
