At least five persons, including two police officers, were hurt in skirmishes between supporters of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Khowai district on Thursday evening, according to the Tripura Police.
The CPI (M) and the BJP have filed lawsuits accusing each other of instigating the riots. “The FIR was registered post-midnight”. Rajib Sutradhar, a Khowai district sub-divisional police officer, stated, “We are investigating the incident.”
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CPI (M) activists were returning from a rally at Lalcherra when the violence began. According to the CPI (M), two CPI (M) workers were injured in an attack by BJP supporters. Later, its supporters allegedly destroyed a boundary wall of the BJP’s under-construction party headquarters. In response, BJP members allegedly trashed a CPI (M) office. Goutam Das, secretary of the CPI (M), claimed the party had filed reports about attacks on its leaders and workers but that the police had taken no action.
There have been previous clashes between the TMC and the BJP. On the stable ground at the time, Mamata Banerjee said that if Bengal had one loaf of bread, half would go to Bengal and the other half to the people of Tripura. Bengal has agreed to help Tripura improve its educational and health-care institutions.
Mamata Banerjee is dreaming of creating a government at the centre, and her goal is to sit in the Prime Minister’s chair now that the Congress has gotten weaker. Communists and the Congress are supporting her, and Sharad Pawar, Tejashwi Yadav, and others are negotiating a coalition against the BJP at the national level.
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