BJP, CPI-M clash during protest rally in Tripura
Agartala/UNI: Tension continued in Udaipur of Gomati district in South Tripura following group clash between ruling BJP supporters and opposition CPI-M on Tuesday during a protest rally of the later party against privatization and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The BJP supporters complained about police against a group of CPI-M workers alleging them of perpetrating attack from their rally while CPI-M alleged the reverse but not registered any formal complaint against anybody so far.
According to the CPI-M, BJP workers started attacking their rally and later at the end a group of people indiscriminately attacked them.
The former minister and senior CPI-M leader Ratan Bhowmik alleged as many as 40 of their supporters were injured in the series of attacks in presence of police.
The violence continued the whole night in different locations around Udaipur where a party office in Mirza was ransacked and several CPI-M supporters in Rajnagar, Dhajnagar and Jamjuri have been assaulted.
He mentioned that BJP workers encircled R K Pur police station area since yesterday and they are not being able to reach there. As a result, CPI-M victims could not register a formal complaint but over telephone details of the incidents were reported to police at a different level. Even then the attack and atrocities on them are continuing.
"The violent workers of the ruling party have been openly warning the opposition supporters in the local markets this morning too. The police are become inactive, which made the people in distress. The opposition leader and former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar spoke to top boss of police last night but not yield any result,” Bhowmik alleged.
He further stated that the BJP leaders have lost control over their workers who as a result, created complete lawlessness across the state. The listed miscreants and criminals took shelter in BJP soon after Biplab Kumar Deb-led government came to power and wearing a saffron scarf and holding flags, they have been creating a nuisance and terrorizing the situation but the rule of BJP and police is in favour of them.
Meanwhile, BJP denied the allegations and said that the CPI-M cadres from the rally attacked two innocent BJP supporters and when others came to rescue them, they were also beaten up badly. The accused people fled away when BJP supporters raised counter-attack on them. They alleged the senior leaders of CPI-M unnecessarily instigated the situation that turned volatile.
The tourism and transport minister Pranajit Singharoy who represented BJP in Udaipur, however, stated that police was asked to investigate the matter and take action against all the accused persons. He denied the allegation that CPI-M was prevented to go to the police station and said, “Unnecessarily, CPI (M) is terrorizing the situation to gain political mileage but not think about the fame of Tripura. I would request them to be constructive and help the government to do the best.”
“Udaipur is one of the important tourist destinations of Tripura but such kind of narrow politics will affect the good attempt of BJP-IPFT government. I also appeal to common people not to fall prey into the ill design of the vested quarter who wants to desist the good attempt of development,” Singharoy added.
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