The leader of opposition Manik Sarkar on Sunday evening paid last respect to the party activist 50-year-old Dilip Sukla Das, who was killed allegedly by the BJP goons on Saturday night at Khowai and expressed concern over the role of police as police denied to take the body to the party office.
Manik Sarkar was accompanied by the party state secretary Jitendra Choudhury, party leader Manik Dey, Sankar Prasad Dutta and Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman.
“There was a political intervention behind the police’ denial of taking the body to the party office. The Director General of Police was supposed to take the decision, but then he was controlled by the politics of the ruling party in this case,” said Manik Sarkar on Sunday evening.
He said, “As per the tradition of our party or any other political party, if any activist dies either naturally or unnaturally, his or her body is supposed to be paid last respect after it is being brought to the party office. But what we have been seeing in the present situation is that bodies are not allowed to be taken to the party office, which is an attempt of an uncivilized society.”
“We got the information about the death of our party activist on Sunday morning, that Dilip Sukla Das was attacked and killed by some miscreants on Saturday night. Later the body was taken to Kalyanpur hospital, from where the body was taken to Khowai hospital,” he told reporters.
He further informed, “Soon after we got to know that the body was brought to Agartala GBP hospital, our party secretary Jitendra Choudhury talked to the DGP over taking the body to the party office. But the DGP refused to allow the body in our party office and decided to take the body back to Khowai.”
“I am deeply concerned with the role of the police, because we have seen a similar case in Charilam, where our party activist Shahid Miah was killed and his body was not allowed to be brought in the party office for paying last respect,” Sarkar said.
Meanwhile, party secretary Jitendra Choudhury said, “The police did not allow us to pay the last respect to the victim. Taliban rule is going on in Tripura. The police violated human rights by not giving the body of Sukla Das to his family.”
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