Tripura CM Manik Saha announces special task force on law and order; Congress demands his resignation

Ashish Kumar Saha alleged that Opposition legislators, activists, police, and journalists were attacked in different places under the BJP rule. He also referred to the attack by alleged TIPRA Motha activists on a group of BJP supporters who were listening to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat radio address at Asharambari in Khowai district on July 27.

The Congress leader also condemned an attack on a newly inaugurated office of his party at Harina in Sabroom of South Tripura district on Tuesday night. “The miscreants set fire to our party campaign and other materials inside the party office. A complaint was filed at the Manu police station demanding the arrest of those involved in the incident,” he said.

“We will hold our party programmes. If we are not allowed, we will protest. Law and order has deteriorated. If the home minister cannot maintain law and order, we demand his resignation,” the Congress state chief said.

Ashish Kumar Saha further stated that a door-to-door campaign held by the Congress had covered nearly 1.5 lakh houses in the state and found that the people had lost their faith in the BJP-led Government.