Agartala, Feb 20, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Agartala, Feb 20: While the opposition Congress and Left Front alliance was saying the voting was free and fair and peaceful, all of a sudden there seems to be some change in the stand when the poll analysis was being done at various levels. The indication of discomfort could not be missed.
 
CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Choudhury on Monday accused BJP party of over sporadic incidents of violence and expressed concern over ‘slow voting’ in major parts of the state and termed this as ‘unnatural’. This is after four days that CPM leader found out ‘slow voting’ as a matter of concern.

Smelling suspicious on voting, the party secretary said, “Despite there was a slow voting this time which is something very unnatural, people came in large numbers to vote on February 16 across the state and that it became an unprecedented voting.”  Interestingly, the CPM leader did not mention about the voting percentage that was much more than this time during Left Front period.

Choudhury was addressing a party gathering here at Agartala organized in memory of CPI(M) worker Mohan Lal Das.

“At a time when the BJP tried to instigate violence in some parts of the state on the day of polling, women in large number along with the people of all walks of life especially in the rural pockets of the state came out of their house to reach the polling booths and casted their vote fearlessly,” he claimed.

Choudhury sought to put up brave face and  said, “the people of Tripura have decided to oust the BJP-led corrupt and anti-democratic government from power.”

“Tripura has never seen such a government, which has been continuously interfering in the personal life and liberty of the citizens of the state. It has dismantled democratic institutions and carried out unabated attacks and violence on opposition party leaders and supporters,” he said.

On the other hand, Choudhury on Monday also lambasted the government at the centre and said, “When Tripura has been witnessing continuous violence by the BJP, the government at the centre is playing a politics of division. They are trying to divide the people of this nation in the name of religion and caste.”

The leader of opposition Manik Sarkar who also addressed the gathering on Monday praised the role of party worker Mohan Lal Das and said that Das worked for social justice and paid equal importance to the party’s movement. Das played a key role in almost all the democratic movements of the party, Sarkar said.