Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha has taken strong exception to the reports of attack of the opposition party leaders who were attacked at Nehal Chandranagar where there they had gone to meet the victims of violence on Friday.
The Chief Minister asked DGP Amitabh Ranjan to take immediate and stern actions against the assailants.
Police said one person was already detained in connection with the incident soon after the Chief Minister passed the instruction to the DGP.
Earlier, a police statement said, the delegation of MPs, MLAs and local leaders made an unscheduled visit to NC Nagar.
“During their visit, some sloganeering was done. The accompanying police escort team responded quickly and rescued the delegation safely. Senior officers are at the spot. No injury to any person has been reported locally. Damage to 2/3 of vehicles has been reported. One suspect has been detained. Raids are on to identify and arrest other miscreants,” police said in a press release.
According to reports a delegation of the opposition Left-Congress MPs, AICC and PCC leaders faced stone pelting and physical intimidations at Nehalchandra Nagar in Bishalgarh on Friday.
It all started with an arguments when the team was talking to some of the violence victims. Situation soon turned volatile and the opposition leaders’ team left the area in a hurry. But in the meantime their vehicles were vandalized.
The team – comprising of PCC Chief and newly elected Congress MLA Birajit Sinha and Gopal Roy, Congress MP Abdul Khaleque, general secretary of AICC Dr Ajay Kumar, State Congress working committee president Sukanta Chakraborty, CPIM State secretary and MLA Jitendra Choudhury – went to visit the Nehalchandra Nagar bazaar where 20 shops were gutted in fire on Wednesday night. The delegation was led by CPIM MP Elaram Karim.
Later, in a tweet Dr Ajay Kumar wrote, “Attack manifested by ruling party goons on us at Nehalchandranagar including delegates of MPs, AICC leaders who accompanied. Tripura Police is merely acting as spectators and no action on the spot”.
Speaking to the media, Birajit Sinha slammed the Police for their ‘inaction’ and blamed the BJP activists for the incident.
In a statement, CPIM State Committee vehemently condemned the attack on the Congress-Left Front delegation.
“This incident aptly describes the deterioration of public safety and law and order in the State where even the visiting MPs are unsafe. Life and livelihood of common people are in peril in the State owing to the miscreants’ attack”, the Statement read and demanded immediate arrests of the culprits.
