A four-member delegation of the Left front in Tripura met the Director General of Police on Monday and sought his intervention to ensure security for the candidates in filing their nomination papers for the ensuing panchayat election.
The delegation comprised of Left front convenor Narayan Kar, former Minister Manik Dey, former MP Shankar Prasad Dutta and former minister Naresh Chandra Jamatia.
“We have come here to meet the DGP to acknowledge him about the recent violence, where the opposition party candidates were targeted for attack and they are being restricted from filing their nomination papers for the panchayat elections,” said Manik Dey. He said that the CPI(M) party candidates are finding difficulties in submitting their nomination paper in at least 23 blocks.
He said, “Our party candidates are being attacked and threatened and also the miscreants are hindering the submission of nomination papers by the opposition party candidates. In this situation we came here to meet the DGP.”
“We demanded the DGP to ensure security coverage for our candidates, who are yet to submit their nomination papers and are finding difficulties due to hindrance and attack by the miscreants,” Dey told reporters, adding that the DGP had failed to assure the Left delegates over ensuring security coverage for the opposition candidates.
Meanwhile, the Left front convenor Narayan Kar expressed his concern over the role of the state election commission and said, “While we met the state election commissioner on this issue of pre-poll violence, the commissioner said that police are already instructed to tackle the situation. But when we came here, the DGP said that he had not received any such instruction from the state election commissioner.”
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