Attack on Left-Congress delegation – a conspiracy to defame Tripura at Centre: BJP

At a time when the MPs and delegation of the Left-Congress party panel moved to the Governor on Saturday with their complain of attack on them by BJP goons at Bishalgarh in Sepahijala district, the ruling BJP party today termed the allegation against them as a ‘conspiracy’ to defame the BJP and the state of Tripura at national level.

The BJP in its press communique on Saturday stated, “There is a conspiracy behind the alleged attack on the leaders of the Left-Congress party. The divisive self-interested leaders of the Left-Congress party panel are trying to defame the BJP and Tripura at national level.”

“Following enquiry report it was found that the delegation of the Left-Congress party panel had made no contact with the police to apprise them about their visit to Bishalgarh on Friday. Despite the lack of advance notice to the police, security guards were present at the scene. The delegation went there and tried to mislead the local people in the name of post-poll violence and political terror,” the press communique reads.

It further stated, “There were some protest there at Bishalgarh against the mislead activities of the Left-Congress delegation, but there were no such attack as alleged. The security personnel played an active role on Friday to escort the delegation from Bishalgarh.”

According to the BJP party, Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha alarmed by the incident of the alleged attack directed the DGP to verify the fact of the incident and in addition to that the BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee also inquired about the details of the incident from the local police administration and general administration officials. There was a thorough enquiry into the alleged incident, it stated.

The press communique stated, “BJP strongly condemns this attempt to spread false information and defame the people of the state and it believes that the public has a major role to play along with the police and general administration in preventing any kind of conspiracy against the state.”