BJP's manifesto is a document of betrayal: CPM

Radhacharan Debbarma, a senior leader of the CPM party and former Chief Executive Member of the dissolved Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council came down heavily on the BJP. He termed the BJP manifesto as a document of betrayal as most of the listed promises are already in progress in the ADC areas.

Agartala (Tripura): Senior leader of the CPM party and former Chief Executive Member of the just dissolved TTAADC (Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council), Radhacharan Debbarma on Monday termed BJP’s manifesto as another 'document of betrayal' just like the ruling party’s 2019 pre-poll promises. Debbarma analyzing all the 27 points of the manifesto said that most of the listed promises are already in progress in the ADC areas.

"The Left ruled council left no stone unturned to empower the TTAADC and the people residing under the jurisdictions of it. All the promises that the BJP had made in its poll manifesto had been started by the Left ruled council” said Debbarma.

Discussing some of the points from the 27 charter of promises, he said, the BJP had promised to promote and protect the indigenous languages of Tripura tribes. The Left ruled council had already included almost all the languages starting from Kokborok to Kuki in school textbooks. Even Kokborok is now being taught till the University level.

Moving on to the next point, he said that they had promised to protect the customary laws of the tribes whereas the state government was not passing the proposals of five customary laws that had been sent for a positive nod after passage in the Council.

On the new medical college issue, he said, “We welcome the decision of the government but not at a time when the state’s health infrastructure is reeling under a serious crisis. Also, the MBBS pass out students are not being given deserving jobs, and that the government is planning to set up another medical college. It signifies nothing”.

Debbarma also singled out issues like setting up of a football and a martial art academy, adding that those which were set up already in TTAADC areas had brought numerous accolades for the state from the national level, but owing to reasons best known to the sports department these institutes were left defunct right now.

“We can easily understand that the BJP and its partner IPFT know nothing about the development activities going on in the TTAADC areas. Being unmindful of the facts, they have made a manifesto that reflects as to what the Left ruled council has provided so far”, he said, adding that it was one of the very few elections where the opposition parties had fallen short of issues.

Debbarma also criticized TIPRA and other political parties that were still in the poll-race, saying that people of the state are well-aware of the facts that sentimental politics cannot bring development.