Eight days after the Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman accused the state tribal welfare minister Bikash Debbarma of amassing large amount of asset during his term of serving as minister, the minister on Saturday lashed out at the Congress MLA to deny the allegations and threatened to file a defamation against Barman, if he fails to probe his allegation.
Replying to the query of the reporters here in his office chamber at the secretariat, the minister said that the allegation made against him by the Congress MLA is false and fabricated and hence Barman needs to probe it or else he will file a defamation case against him. He said, “I would step down from politics of Mr Barman can prove his allegation against me.”
In a recent assembly session, Barman accused the minister and his family of illicitly amassing properties, which Debbarma vehemently denied, calling the charges baseless and politically motivated.
“During the past 25 years before I joined the politics, I was a government approved contractor since 1989 and even my son is an engineer. I already possessed a large amount of asset having asset of my father before I joined politics,” he clarified.
MLA Barman also claimed that Minister Debbarma had purchased a petrol pump in Teliamura for his wife after assuming office. Responding to the allegation, Minister Bikash Debbarma on Saturday clarified saying, “My name, my wife’s name and my son’s name are not associated with any petrol pump in Teliamura or anywhere else in the Khowai district.”
“The people of Tripura’s Janjati section will not spare MLA Roy Barman because he does not love the people of our tribe and our brothers and sisters,” he said.
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