Even as the Enforcement Directorate quizzed Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday in Agartala Tripura Pradesh Congress also staged a protest in front of the agency’s office
The All India Congress Committee secretary Szaritha Laiphang in a press conference on Wednesday alleged of brutal torture on senior party leaders as they were staging protest outside the heavily barricaded ED office in Delhi on Wednesday.
“Our workers are being beaten up mercilessly. For the last two days the police which cordoned off the entire area of the ED office in Delhi restricted our party leaders from entering into the office. Police had brutally attacked and tortured our senior party leaders,” she alleged.
Reacting sharply on the police manhandling against the congress party leaders and ED’s questioning of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader Tzaritha Laiphang said the party will fight till the end against the ED’s move.
“We are like a family, where when one of our family members is in trouble, we are on a move to support our family member. We are ready to fight till the end and go for Jail Bharo Andolan,” she said.
Earlier on Tuesday Congress came down heavily on the BJP for alleged an increasing rate of crime across the state.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, the Congress leader and former party president Gopal Chandra Roy highlighted different government reports on crime rate since 2017 and alleged that since after the formation of the BJP government in Tripura, the crime rate had gradually increased by 9.8%. He claimed, “The Tripura went up to third position in terms of hike in crime rate in the Northeast region of the country.”
Roy on Tuesday also took a dig on the BJP government over the reservation of women and jobs and employment and stated, “With the absence of the missed call baba now in Tripura, the unemployed youths of the state are being deprived at large from employment and job, despite the BJP in its vision document had promised of these.”
“Now the Jhumla leaders of the BJP like Amit Shah has come up with a new policy of 33% women reservation in Tripura government jobs, but interestingly, if the government is unable to provide employment and job, how the reservation will work for the women, which is yet another jhumlabaj,” the congress leader stated.
On the other hand, the congress leader Gopal Roy came down heavily on the TMC party after party’s general secretary Abhishek Banerjee appealed to the electorates not to waste their votes by choosing CPIM or Congress as an alternative to BJP.
Roy said, “The TMC and the BJP are both sides of the same coin, as Abhishek Banerjee is moving in line with the jhumlabaj leaders of the BJP party. The TMC has its no existence anywhere in the country other than Bengal and moreover the TMC has been working to fuel the BJP, like what we have seen in the recent Goa election, where the TMC has pushed the BJP to form government.”
