BJP threatening voters, Opposition leader demands for immediate arrest

Leader of Opposition (LoP) and CPI (M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury in a letter to the State Election Commissioner (SEC) alleged that a group of ruling party supporters through an open rally bikes and car were threatening villagers of few Panchayats under North Tripura district  and by miking they warned villagers that if anybody try to contest the ensuing Panchayat elections either from CPI(M) or Congress ticket, they shall be throttled to death.

Chaudhury in his letter giving news clippings of two vernacular dailies claimed that  a convoy led by one Subrata Rudrapaul, a BJP leader working in BMS-Dharmanagar toured the villages like Sakaibari, Baruakandi, Chandrapur, Raghna etc Panchayats under North Tripura district and openly threats villagers.

“It is unimaginable that in a democratic country such a type of open threat against democracy could be perpetrated without any preventive action either from police or from any authority in Administration. This happened vindicating the apprehension expressed in the Memorandum by our party delegation led by Manik Dey who met you on 24th June, 2024. Also, this is an open challenge to your independent authority as State Election Commissioner,” said Chaudhury in his letter.

He also said that ‘being a ruling party, BJP should have discharged greater responsibility to let the election be conducted in a most free and fair manner. Instead, it seems that they stand as a stumbling block against democracy to roll on in the state.’

Chaudhury urged the SEC to direct the competent police authority to immediately arrest Subrata Rudrapaul and his followers who openly threatened against nomination by opposition in the Panchayats and initiate legal action against them and all the vehicles joined in that convoy may be seized and owners of those may be legally prosecuted.