BJP raps CPM, gives list of violence in LF period
Agartala, Apr 21, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk
Agartala, Apr 21: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lashed out at the leftists on the issue of post-poll violence during the Left Front regime. Taking a jibe at the leftists, the saffron party leaders detailed about the post-violence that took place since the late 1970s and alleged that the ‘hit team’ of the CPM killed 11 BJP Karyakartas during 2016-17 in the State.
State president BJP Rajib Bhattacharjee, while addressing a press meeting in Agartala on Friday, fired verbal salvos saying that people of the State are well aware of brutal incidences that occurred after polls during the Left and Congress-TUJS regimes. Bhattacharjee’s reaction came up after CPIM leaders led by the party’s State secretary and MLA Jitendra Choudhury submitted a deputation to the Chief Minister on the state-wide violence reported after the announcement of the Assembly poll results on March 2 last.
“It does not suit for CPM to talk about violence. People helplessly witnessed the murder of different leaders – even the then Health Minister Bimal Sinha, also a CPM leader, was killed during its regime. Such was the situation in the State”, Bhattacharjee said.
The BJP leader showed several newspaper cuttings from yester years and it is the same media which is in front of me now reporting about the atrocities and terror unleashed after polls in different years. He also pointed out that opposition party workers were fleeing away from their homes owing to the post-poll violence by the supporters of the CPM.
Bhattacharjee also mentioned the reign of terror during the Congress-TUJS regime saying that Shyamhari Sharma of the BJP was killed. How do the CPM and Congress leaders think that people have forgot everything, he asked.
Referring to the killings of several communist leaders and supporters during the Congress and TUJS era, Bhattacharjee said the political strength of CPM reached to such a low level that they had to hold hands of Congress. However, joining hands with Congress could not save the leftists as it was relegated to the third position.
He also mentioned several mass killings that took place during the period of CPM and Congress-TUJS regimes including the mass killing at Jarulbazar.