The fact finding team of the Left-Congress panel who landed in the state to compile report on post-poll violence and faced attack allegedly by the BJP goons on Saturday met the Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya at Raj Bhawan and sought his intervention over the incident of attack on them.
The seven-member team of the Left-Congress party panel comprising of the CPI(M) MP Elamaram Kareem, Congress MP Abdul Khalek and others were collecting ground report of the post-poll violence in Tripura. They however suspended their outdoor programmes scheduled for Saturday after they faced attack on Friday at Bishalgarh.
The MPs of the Left-Congress panel on Saturday met the Governor before they leave for Delhi and complained that they faced attack on Friday by some BJP goons at Bishalgarh Nehalchandranagar in Sepahijala district while they were on their visit to the violence affected sites and families.
The delegation, which includes former Chief Minister of the then Left front government in Tripura – Manik Sarkar is expected to raise the issues of the ground report of the violence in the second half of the Budget session of Parliament, which convenes from March 13.
The MPs in their memorandum to the Governor said, “We are in doubt, whether in any state of the country such backlash is carried out by the ruling party on the followers of opponents only because they didn’t support the ruling party and worked for opposition in the just concluded Assembly Election.”
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