Agartala, Jan 14, 2023, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, Jan 14: At a time when the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress party formed a poll understanding, the ruling BJP on Saturday lambasted both the opposition parties and termed the alliance bid of Congress and CPI(M) as worthless.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday evening, minister Sushanta Chowdhury talked tough against both the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress party over their political understanding and said, “BJP is not worried of this alliance bid and the people of the state will give their befitting reply to it in the ensuing assembly election.”
“The Congress leaders who once snapped all ties with the congress party for an understanding with the CPI(M) in West Bengal, the party leaders in Tripura opposed the move and joined the TMC party. But in a very peculiar political turn the same congress leaders in Tripura are inching closer to the CPI(M),” he told reporters.
He continued lambasting the opposition and said, “The CPI(M), which ruled the state for at least 25 years since 1993 once called the Congress party as anti-national and blasted the party for their activities. Now this CPI(M) party has chosen to tie up with that Congress party which opposed its electoral understanding with that of CPI(M) in West Bengal.”
“Both this CPI(M) and the Congress party unleashed terror tactics during the past 25 years and even before during the coalition government in Tripura. People had seen a large scale of violence during their rule,” he said, adding that it is the BJP party, which under the leadership of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi that brought a change in the state in the year of 2018.
He said, “Both the CPI(M) and the Congress party especially are playing with the emotion of the people of this state ahead of the ensuing assembly election. But people will give a befitting reply to them.”
On the other hand, speaking on the BJP’s alliance with the IPFT party, Chowdhury said, “We are ready to go for further alliance with the IPFT party for the ensuing election, but it is upto the IPFT party about how they want to move ahead for this election. We always want to work with the IPFT for the welfare of the people of the mainland and hills.”