Agartala (Tripura): Despite assurance from the Governor and Chief Minister, total lawlessness, anarchy and misgovernance have been prevailing in Tripura since the BJP came into power in March 2018 and kept the police as "wooden doll", former Chief Minister and CPI-M leader Manik Sarkar said on Sunday.
Sarkar, a politburo member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), said that during the past two years (since June 2019) at least 10 people were killed in nine incidents of lynching and several people escaped from the mob attacks while five people died in police custody.
"BJP government's indifferent attitude and the puppet role of police led to the happening and rising of the attacks and atrocities on the opposition party workers, supporters and party offices," the Left leader told the media. He said that Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb during the Assembly session in the third week of March had assured to stop political violence against the Opposition parties.
"But since the CM's statement in the house, over 200 incidents of physical attacks on the opposition party men, mostly on the CPI-M workers and supporters occurred. Besides, 152 attacks on shops and houses belonging to the Opposition parties took place and attacks on 17 party offices registered during this period," said Sarkar, who is now the Opposition Leader of the State Assembly.
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Referring that Tripura once was the number one state in the country in voluntary blood donation, the former Chief Minister said that BJP workers even attacked the Opposition party workers while they are organising blood donation camps. Sarkar, who was the Chief Minister for 20 years until the BJP came to power three years and three months ago, said that the BJP workers even attacked the People's Relief Volunteers (PRV) while they were carrying out various programmes against the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic.