Agartala:Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev was reportedly attacked and her car was vandalised by some miscreants in Tripura on Friday. The incident is said to have occurred at Amtali around 1.30 pm.
Dev, who is in Tripura as part of a 12-day state-wide programme ‘Tripurar Jonno Trinamool (Trinamool for Tripura)' to highlight the vision, schemes and messages of party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleged the BJP was behind the attack. "During our outreach programme, some goons attacked our cars, they beat our workers. It's clear that BJP is 'Bharatiya Gunda Party'. CM Biplab Deb is giving them protection, the attackers didn't even bother to cover their faces. CM is a useless fellow," Dev told ANI.
At around 1:30 pm we got information that two cars were attacked by unknown miscreants. Our 4 officers moved there immediately & rescued them (TMC workers). They lodged a complaint, we will register it and will probe, the news agency quoted Amtali police station in-charge, Siddhartha Kar, as saying.
Visuals being widely circulated on social media show perpetrators vandalising a blue SUV with TMC's election symbol and attacking Dev, who is a member of TMC's Tripura steering committee, and people around her.
Following the incident, a tweet from the official handle of AITC Tripura said, "people of #Tripura will give a befitting response to this BARBARIC ATTACK! Police must immediately stop acting as mere spectators. This collapse of law and order is unacceptable. WE DEMAND JUSTICE! #ShameOnBJP."
