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Shillong / Agartala: Union Home
Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday assured the government that the government is
working to ensure peace in Tripura, where the Bharatiya Janata Party has
achieved a historic mandate on the weekend. Singh said that he had spoken to
the state governor and the DGP and asked him to ensure peace till he was taken
to the new government.
The Home Minister's remarks came in
the wake of reports of sporadic violence in the North-Eastern states, in which
last Left Front more than two decades ago witnessed the collapse of the
government. The BJP demolished the leftist fort in Tripura, its ally, with a
two-thirds majority winning the IPFT, was declared the result on Saturday.
Since the announcement of the
results of the election on Saturday, sporadic violence and conflicts have been
reported among the rival political groups in different parts of the state. In
the worst case, with the help of a bulldozer in the city of Belonia in southern
Tripura, an idol of Lemon icon Lenin was demolished today. The reports said
that the BJP workers were allegedly involved in the incident.
Responding to the incident, BJP
leader Nalin Kohli said, "BJP does not always follow the culture of
violence, in places like Tripura, the Left has chosen to be quiet about 11 BJP
workers who were killed. Some of them, who support the Left parties, is trying
to remove these issues. "
Meanwhile, the Left parties strongly
condemned violence.
CPI leader D Raja said such
incidents are not acceptable in the democracy. "I condemn this violence,
it is not acceptable in the democracy. We are a multi-party democracy, some
parties win and some lose, it does not mean that they can resort to vandalism
and violence like this Lenin statue will be destroyed. Law needs to take its
own path. "
"Violence in Tripura indicates
RSS and BJP ideology, besides violence, they have no political future, people
of Tripura will react to violence," CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury said in
Kolkata.
Meanwhile, during the telephone
call, Governor Raj Gupta Roy and DGP Shukla told the Union Home Minister about
the current state of Tripura and took steps to control violence.
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