Agartala , Apr 22, 2024, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, April 22: In response to the challenge thrown by opposition CPI-M towards the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) over “Rose Valley Chit Fund Scam”, the ruling party representatives on Monday clarified its stand while claiming that all the allegations raised against the CPI-M are completely true.

Addressing a press conference here at BJP state headquarters in Agartala, state BJP spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said, “It was the former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar who on May 7, 2008 had cut the ribbon of the Rose Valley Chit Fund and appealed the common people of the state to invest in the firm.”

“During the time of Manik Sarkar and his Left front government, the Rose Valley Chit fund company had siphoned off the hard-earned money of the poor of this state,” Chakraborty said, adding that the CBI had questioned the Left leader Bijita Nath and Goutam Das in connection with the chit fund scam.

The BJPs statement has come up in response to the CPI(M)’s challenge to the BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee over his remark that “Manik Sarkar looted people’s money and construction of CPI(M) party office through Rose Valley”, made during the election campaign.

The CPI(M) in its press communique on April 21 stated that the CBI had failed to crack the case of Rose Valley chit fund scam.

Reacting on this, the BJP spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty on Monday said, “Soon after the onset of BJP-led government in Tripura, the government asked for an enquiry into the case and accordingly the CBI is working on it and the government has nothing to intervene on this.”

Alleging that the 25 years of Left government was deep necked in corruption at each level including  the recruitment process, Chakraborty said, “The former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and his Left bastion are responsible for the scam and before the firm eloped from the state looting the people’s hard-earned money, it was Manik Sarkar and his council of ministers who did nothing despite having the knowledge of this,” he said,

 “The former government adopted the policy of divide and rule, deprivation and domination in the state of Tripura during their 25 years tenure”, alleged BJP.

State BJP media in-charge Sunit Sarkar also remained present at the day’s press conference.