A delegation of more than 15 TMC MPs will reach Delhi tonight, seeking an appointment with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the alleged police brutality in Tripura. The MPs will sit on a dharna from tomorrow morning in the national capital, news agency ANI reported.
“Brutal attacks on the TMC. Even members of media were clobbered, and arrests on trumped-up charges,” TMC Derek O’Brien tweeted at Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking appointment for the TMC MPs.
TMC spokesman Saket Gokhale said the main issue is that the party’s youth wing president of the state, Sayani Ghosh, has been charged with an attempt to murder for raising the party’s slogan “khela hobe (game on)”. He questioned how a political slogan amounts to an attempt to murder.
Gokhale said ruling Bharatiya Janata Party workers allegedly attacked the TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev at a police station in Agartala. “Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee’s flight was allegedly refused permission to land by Agartala’s airport authority. This is the level of mayhem in Agartala right now… Chief Minister Biplab Deb has taken the law into his own hands and the Constitution is out of the window.”
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He added in this current condition, they are unsure how free and fair the upcoming civic elections will be. “…TMC has demanded independent monitors for a just electoral process.”
Trinamool Youth Congress President Sayonni Ghosh was arrested by Tripura Police on Sunday for allegedly causing a ruckus at a public meeting of Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.
B Jagadishwar Reddy, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) West, Tripura said, “She has been arrested based on preliminary evidence. We have registered a case under sections 307, 153 of the Indian Penal Code. Action will be taken against those who attacked TMC workers as well after identification, an FIR has been filed.”
(With inputs from ANI)
