Agartala, Jul 31, 2024, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, July 31: The former Chief Minister of Tripura and also the CPI(M) Politburo member Manik Sarkar on Wednesday targeted the NDA led government at the Centre and said that the 2024 general election to the Lok Sabha left no good sign for the BJP and the RSS, who are trying to build ‘Hindu Rashtra’.

Addressing the party gathering here at Agartala Town Hall during the memorial meeting of late CPI(M) leader Samar Addya, Manik Sarkar said, “The party which was slogging for over 400 seats in the Lok Sabha election, could not even touch 300 seats.”

“The people of rural areas of the country including the khet mazdoors, farmers and daily labourers played a crucial role to bring bad sign for the BJP in this Lok Sabha election. The BJP got a major blow this time and what does this indicate? The situation has been changed,” he said, adding that the BJP in Tripura also got a blow during the last 2023 general assembly election, where the BJP could score in 49 seats based on some false votes in 15-20 seats.

Reacting sharply to the union budget presented by the union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the lower house of the parliament, Sarkar said, “The budget has allocated Rs 1000 crore for the state of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, because BJP knows that without Bihar and Andhra Pradesh they cannot exist in government at the Centre.”

In regard to the upcoming panchayat elections, Manik Sarkar alleged that worried of yet another blow, the BJP had attempted to disrupt the opposition candidates from contesting in the election. This clarifies the weakness of the BJP, he added.

He said, “The BJP has been using the state of Tripura as a laboratory to establish a "one-party, dictatorial, fascistic regime and that if the laboratory experiment in Tripura succeeds, the one-party, dictatorial model will be replicated in the rest of the country.”