Agartala, Aug 01, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala Aug 01: Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman on Monday wrote another letter to newly appointed Director General of Tripura Police Amitabha Ranjan complaining against the undue security cover being provided to former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.

Explaining this as a sheer wastage of public money, Barman wrote: "It is a matter of deep concern and dismay that public money meant to be spent for public welfare and development work is being wasted by state police in providing undue security cover to politicians. This expenditure is justified when the same is incurred in providing security cover to politica! leaders who deserve this and are entitled to this by official order. But in Tripura a bizarre thing has been happening in the name of providing security over the past six years. You may not be aware that in the year 2017 the then BJP state president Shri Biplab Kumar Deb (later chief minister) had stage-managed a so-called attack on him to have security cover from union home ministry which granted him only 'Y' category of security cover whose implications you are certainly well aware of". 
 

Barman claimed that after his ouster from the post of Chief Minister he was enjoying the security with false claims. He demanded action against those officials who entertaining the false security claims and Biplab Kumar Deb. 
 

"But ever since the ouster of Shri Biplab Kumar Deb from the post of Chief Minister, he and his personal assistants kept on claiming his entitlement to 'Z' plus security through an act of gross falsification to gain tightest possible security which also allows him to have personal security officers accompany him during his visits both within the state beyond Agartala as well as outside the state. (Copies enclosed) The number of government vehicles along with security is regularly being misused. Thus the government has been incurring heavy expenses bordering on squandering of public money on the false security claim of Biplab Kumar Deb. Even now after being ousted from post of chief minister Shri Biplab Kumar Deb continues to enjoy 'Z' plus security cover at the cost of public exchequer and, if you call for records you will find that whenever his private secretary requisitions security for him he falsely refers to Biplab Kumar Deb as a 'Z' plus protectee whereas he is registered as only 'Y' category of security entitlement. In this context ! hope that you will look into and duly review the entire issue so that the squandering of the public money on Biplab Kumar Deb who is now a mere MLA is stopped in public interest. I may request you in this connection that your good office may suo-motto register a case against Shri Biplab Kumar Deb and his private secretary for falsifying the security status of Shri Deb and also take necessary action against the officers involved in entertaining such falsification."
 

The Congress MLA also demanded the money spent on his security should be realized from Deb as a penalty of faking threat perceptions.