Tripura violence: Left-Congress MPs fact-finding team ‘attacked’; 3-4 vehicles vandalised

A joint fact-locating group from the Left events and the Congress, which includes MPs and MLAs, which arrived in Agartala on Friday to inspect post-ballot violence in Tripura, become attacked in Sepahijala district, reports, mentioning the police, claimed.

While the police stated the group become attacked via way of means of unknown miscreants, Congress MP from Assam Abdul Khaliq, who become a part of the group, alleged that the attackers claimed that they had been Bharatiya Janata Party people and pelted stones. “Three-4 of our motors had been vandalised. The police did nothing. We realised there’s no rule of regulation in Tripura,” information organization ANI quoted Khaliq as saying.

Assistant inspector preferred (regulation and order) Jyotishman Das Chowdhury instructed information organization PTI that no one of the eight-member group become injured withinside the assault in Nehalchandrangar.

“A delegation of MPs, MLAs and nearby leaders of the Left events and the Congress made an unscheduled go to to Nehalchandranagar in Bishalgarh these days. During their go to, sloganeering become achieved and their motors had been attacked via way of means of a few miscreants. The police escort group replied fast and rescued individuals of the delegation safely… No damage to any man or woman become said however -3 motors had been broken withinside the assault,” Chowdhury stated.

The officer, however, stated one man or woman has been detained withinside the incident. “Raids are directly to pick out and arrest different miscreants. Senior law enforcement officials are there on the spot,” he stated.

Sharing a video, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “A delegation of Congress leaders become attacked via way of means of BJP goons these days in Bishalgarh & Mohanpur in Tripura. Police accompanying the delegation did NOTHING. And day after today BJP is having a victory rally there. Victory of birthday birthday celebration-subsidized violence.”

Left and Congress MPs from Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu arrived in Tripura to discover the quantity of violence presupposed to have taken vicinity for the reason that ballot effects on March 2. The MPs, divided into 3 teams, visited one-of-a-kind elements of the districts of Sepahijala, Gomati, West Tripura, Khowai, and Dhalai throughout the day, The Indian Express said. The CPI(M) stated the joint group of the Left and the Congress had been journeying diverse violence-hit regions of West Tripura, Sepahijala and Khowa throughout the day.

“Once the delegation, comprising CPI(M) MP E Karim and Congress MP Abdul Khaliq and AICC preferred secretary Ajay Kumar landed at Nehalchandrangar market, they had been attacked via way of means of miscreants elevating slogans of `Bharat Mata Ki Jai`. One automobile become critically broken, whilst extra automobiles had been additionally vandalised,” senior CPI(M) chief Rakhal Majumder stated.

“Our individuals had been stored as they shifted right away from there,” Majumder stated, including that Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee president Birajit Sinha and CPI(M) country secretary Jitendra Chowdhury, who gained the election, had been additionally a part of the fact-locating delegation.

Khalek additionally alleged that almost 20 stores had been gutted in Nehalchandranagar and after the delegation reached the spot withinside the afternoon to take inventory of the scenario it got here below assault. “We had been knowledgeable a few 20 stores had been gutted in Nehalchandranagar in Bishalgarh. We went to go to the ones and speak to the affected people,” the newspaper quoted Khalek as saying.

The fact-locating group is anticipated to live withinside the country until March 12 and then it’s going to put up a record and the difficulty might be raised withinside the subsequent Parliament session, in order to start on March 13, CPI MP Binoy Viswam had tweeted on Thursday.

Condemning the assault at the delegation, the CPI(M) demanded the arrest of all of the miscreants immediately. Most of the post-ballot violence instances had been said from Sepahijala and Khowai districts. Chief minister Manik Saha requested the police to take stern movement towards the miscreants on the way to keep peace and tranquillity.

In the Tripura election, the BJP-IPFT authorities lower back to strength withinside the country for the second one consecutive time period because the saffron birthday birthday celebration gained 32 seats withinside the 60-member assembly, whilst its best friend the Indigenous Peoples` Front of Tripura secured one constituency.