AGARTALA: The Trinamool Congress has alleged that Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) was mobilised to cut the power in the Dasharath Deb auditorium on Friday to disturb its pre-scheduled workers’ convention where 22 people from the BJP, CPM and Congress joined the party.
The party alleged that the ruling party cadres have also tried to create tension when their supporters were going to attend the programme. Despite due payment and repeated requests, the power supply was not restored and TSECL officials indirectly expressed their inability to do so, alleged local TMC leaders.
TMC leader and West Bengal minister Bratya Basu on Friday said BJP cadres allegedly attacked TMC youth leaders in front of Udaipur College in Gomati district and left three injured during a programme held to welcome new entrants on Thursday. Two of the injured — Sumon Mia and Azad Sarkar — are serious and undergoing treatment at Agartala Government Medical College.
Meanwhile, TMC leader Sushmita Dev told the media that her party has intensified its efforts to wean away Congress and BJP cadres to strengthen the base in Tripura. Earlier, they had forced hotels and travel agencies to stop providing services to the TMC and now, the BJP has stopped power supply, which is the biggest sign of nervousness of the ruling party, she said.
Sushmita arrived here on a fortnight-long visit to the state to shape up the organisation and constitute the Tripura state committee of the Trinamool. After her arrival, she personally spoke to a number of BJP MLAs, dissident leaders of the ruling party and Congress leaders who have contacts of her father Santosh Mohan Dev, who had been elected twice in the 90s and made central minister from the state.
Susmita issued a clarion call to all BJP, CPM and Congress workers and supporters to join the Trinamool so that the fight against the “anti-people activities of BJP government” can be intensified before the 2023 assembly poll. She also had held a meeting with BJP legislator Sudip Roy Barman.
She alleged that the Congress high command has always neglected Tripura, using it as a bargaining counter to befriend the CPM at the national level, which had become the main turning point for the BJP to win the elections in 2018. “Biplab Kumar Deb must understand the people had voted against CPM and not for the BJP in the last assembly election and now people of Tripura have decided to oust this government, as it has cheated the people,” she said.
