Amid the ongoing clash between the ruling BJP and the main opposition CPI(M) in Tripura, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday said the Left party was trying to push the state towards anarchy and such political behavior would not be tolerated by the people. Clashes broke out between two rival parties in different parts of the northeastern state on Monday. Officials said there are reports of fresh clashes between the BJP and the CPI(M). For the last 3 years, Tripura has witnessed all-round peace and prosperity with radical improvement in the law and order situation. The political opposition (sic) led by the CPM has been furious. In his desperation to regain lost political ground, he attempted to plunge Tripura into anarchy, tweeted Deb.
I want to remind the CPM that in our new Tripura this kind of violent political behavior will not be tolerated by the people here. I will try my best to identify and punish every miscreant according to the law. He said that peace is and will remain a non-negotiable principle of the BJP-led government. Left Front convener and CPI(M) central committee member Bijan Dhar said during the day that at least 26 party offices were attacked and vandalized since midnight on Thursday. Homes of at least 100 Left party workers and leaders were torched in the state and at least 50 workers were injured.
An unprecedented terror was allowed to be defeated by the goons who were sheltered by the BJP. Democracy has been murdered and the voice of the people has been suppressed. He told reporters that we have no other way but to protest this terror except by a democratic movement. The clash started on Monday when BJP workers allegedly stopped former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar from going to Dhanpur in Sepahijala district. Six workers of the saffron party and one of the CPI(M) were injured in the clashes. Trouble broke out again in Udaipur town of Tripura’s Gomti district on Wednesday after the Democratic Youth Federation of India, the youth wing of the CPI(M), took out a procession and some of them allegedly attacked a passing BJP worker, by which he was injured very seriously. .
Police said a group of BJP workers present nearby retaliated and attacked the DYFI procession. Police said three people were injured but their political affiliations were yet to be ascertained. After the clashes in Udaipur, a large contingent of police was deployed to disperse the crowd and maintain peace, officials said.
Police said the condition of the BJP worker injured in the Udaipur clash is critical and is still undergoing treatment. He was shifted to GB Pant Hospital here. According to sources, party offices of the CPI(M) in Agartala, Vishalgarh and Kathalia were vandalized and set ablaze after the Udaipur clash. A group of unidentified miscreants ransacked the CPI(M)’s Udaipur party office, while a vehicle of former Left Front minister Ratan Bhowmik was torched, officials said.
Soon after the clash, Agriculture Minister Pranjit Singha Roy reached the spot and took stock of the situation. He later told the media that the DYFI had taken out the procession without taking prior permission from the police. When the police tried to stop it, DYFI activists resorted to violence and injured several people. BJP worker Mofiz Miya, who was passing by, was attacked and seriously injured. In addition, a hotel was vandalized and some houses vandalized, Singha Roy said.
He said that the government would take legal action against those involved in the violence. Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik led a protest march in Dhanpur of Sonamura subdivision on Wednesday to protest against Monday’s violence. The BJP Sadar district unit also took out a protest rally in the capital Agartala on Wednesday. The CPI(M) state party office in Melrmath was torched and a newspaper office near the main road was also vandalised.
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