With Tripura witnessing political violence, Central forces were deployed in sensitive areas

With Tripura witnessing political violence, Central forces were deployed in sensitive areas.

There was arson and violence in newspaper offices and offices of opposition party CPIM.

Office of CPIM was targeted in Agartala and other places. communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury in a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought the centre’s intervention to stop political violence against the Left parties in Tripura.

A senior police officer who do not want to be named told ET, " Tripura State Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed in sensitive areas across the state. Police has detained four persons in Udaipur and one person in Agartala in connection with violence. "

Case of attack on a newspaper office Pratibadi Kalam is given to crime branch of the police.

Senior CPI-M leader Pabitra Kar said that in a pre-planned fashion, the BJP workers accompanied by the goons in the past 48 hours have attacked and burnt down at least 55 party offices in all the 8 districts including the state party headquarters and CITU head office in Agartala and Gomati, West Tripura and Sepahijala district offices.

Yeachury stated that the impunity with which the BJP gangs operated shows the connivance of the state government.

“The Central government, in particular the Union Home Ministry, should intervene immediately to ensure that the rule of law prevails and the rights of citizens are protected in Tripura. "

BJP leader Rajiv Bhattacharjee and party spokesman Nabendu Bhattacharjee said that former chief minister Manik Sarkar have been instigating violence in different parts of Tripura. They want to create the trouble and disturb peace of the state.

Rajiv Bhattacharjee said, "If the CPI-M workers attack the BJP men, there would definitely be a reaction. We want peace and development in the state," he stated.