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News Desk: The TMC on Thursday organised a massive demonstration in front of the police headquarters in Agartala to protest against the alleged attacks on its workers ahead of the November 25 elections to the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and 19 other urban local bodies.
After the demonstration, a delegation of Trinamool leaders, led by the party’s Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev, state leader Subal Bhowmik and Rajib Banerjee, met deputy inspector general (southern range) R G K Rao and demanded immediate action against the attackers and to put an end to the violence against the opposition party workers and candidates.
Addressing the protesters, Dev said that the TMC has filed several FIRs with the police across Tripura after a series of violent attacks on the party men, but no arrest has been made so far.
“The police have become a puppet at the hands of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb. A reign of terror has been unleashed in Tripura and all the agencies, including the National Human Rights Commission and women’s commission, have remained silent. This is the nation of Mahatma Gandhi, not the country of Nathuram Godse” she said.
Trinamool’s Tripura unit chief Subal Bhowmik later told the media that so far, 13 TMC candidates, including women, have been attacked by the BJP workers and their goons in different parts of the state, but the police did nothing.
Bhowmik claimed that homes of many Trinamool candidates were attacked by the BJP workers and their goons and many of them were physically assaulted.
The BJP, however, has rubbished Trinamool’s accusations.
BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharjee alleged that the Trinamool has unleashed a reign of terror in West Bengal against the BJP and brought the culture of violence in the peaceful Tripura to malign the state government.
“The Trinamool ministers, MPs and leaders are often coming to Tripura, spending lakhs of rupees they bagged from various chit funds” Bhattacharjee told the media.
