CPI(M), TMC’s presence limited to social media: Tripura CM Manik Saha

Later, reacting to the recent visit of a TMC team to Agartala in the wake of vandalism at its state headquarters, CM Saha said that a few TMC leaders from Kolkata came with an indigenous woman leader, thinking that if anything happens to her, they could use it to counter the attack on BJP Bengal Lok Sabha MP Khagen Murmu. (Murmu was recently attacked by alleged TMC workers during a flood-relief work in North Bengal, and had to be hospitalised for severe head injuries.)

“They came here to provoke, but their attempts have failed. The TMC will again come during the elections. But the BJP knows how to handle them,” he said.

CM Saha also said that the TMC has been reduced to a “signboard party” in Tripura.

A six-member TMC delegation headed by party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh arrived in Tripura on October 8 seeking the intervention of the Governor and the director general of police in taking legal action against those involved in the attack on the TMC office. During a meeting with the DGP, the delegation also sought to know the status of previous cases of attacks on TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and other party workers filed in 2021 and 2023.

The delegation also filed a complaint at the New Capital Complex police station in Agartala over the attack at the TMC state headquarters.

Meanwhile, the BJP denied allegations of vandalism at the TMC Tripura headquarters, but admitted that saffron party activists removed TMC flags, flexes and banners in protest against attacks on MP Murmu and BJP leader Shankar Ghosh at Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.

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