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Reacting to Tripura Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath’s recent remarks on CPI(M) members getting assaulted, Opposition leader Jitendra Chaudhary Thursday said the minister was instigating BJP workers and doesn’t have the moral right to continue in office.
Speaking to reporters, Chaudhury, who is also the CPI(M) state secretary, said, “We don’t normally give much importance to what he says. But he has disregarded the Constitutional oath of upholding the law and protecting all residents of the state… that he swore by before he became a legislator and a minister.”
“He (Nath) has no moral right to continue in his position as MLA and minister. He is unable to comply with Constitutional responsibilities; instead, he is speaking in the language and tone of criminals,” the CPI(M) leader added.
Chaudhary also criticised former chief minister and Lok Sabha MP Biplab Kumar Deb for making an inflammatory comment during an event held on Poush Sankranti (January 14).
He said even after being unceremoniously dropped as the chief minister three years ago, Deb has not refrained from making such speeches.
“Biplab Kumar Deb and Ratan Lal Nath… continue to incite violence through inflammatory comments, these comments are a result of frustration borne from public disconnect,” Chaudhury further said.
Earlier this week, Nath had invoked Newton’s third law of motion and said communists were getting assaulted now since they had assaulted others in the past and he could not do anything about it.
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