CPI-M party leaders and workers across the state of Tripura, CPI-M state secretary Jitendra Chowdhury on Friday sought intervention of the state Chief Secretary and urged him to direct the competent police authority to take cognisance to the complaints made in different Police stations on attacks of the party offices and media houses on September 8 last and others such attacks and take stern legal action against the perpetrators.
The CPI-M leader and the party’s state secretariat member Ratan Bhowmik in the joint letter Chief Secretary Kumar Alok stated, “We also urge you to direct the Director General of Police or appropriate authority to arrange vehicular escort to the Party Secretary and State Secretariat members of the CPI-M Tripura and the opposition MLAs, during their tour anywhere in the state.”
“Direct the police authority to help the respective CPI(M) leaders to reopen the closed party offices mentioned in the above list and keep watch so that no further attacks on these offices are made by any mischief-monger,” the letter stated.
The party leaders noted, “The movement of Manik Sarkar, leader of the Opposition was prevented and thwarted several times. The MLAs namely Badal Chowdhury, Sudhan Das, Ratan Bowmik, shyamal Chakraborty etc. were physically attacked, their cars broken up, some more than once. The perpetrators feel hardly any scare of any legal action.”
They also sought the CS’s intervention in the letter to stop the ‘random attacks’ on democratic rights of the people of Tripura, on the offices of the opposition political parties, particularly the CPI-M, take necessary measures to reopen the CPI-M offices which were forced to be closed due to the unheard of terror that let loose since March, 2018.
“To our utter dismay, we find that, instead of declining in anti-democratic barbaric attacks, recently this has not only escalated but terror-mongers expanded its operational area dragging larger number of innocent people under their wrath. The anti-communist violent frenzied move that the BJP miscreants had committed on September 8 last throughout the state, is nothing but a pre-planned organized move chalked out by top level of the party and had complicity with a section of the police authority,” the letter viewed.
