By Firstdespatch Desk Jan 14, 2023
Agartala, Jan 14 (FD) Putting all speculations on rest, the two political rival parties of Tripura Congress and CPI-M have come closer for an alliance and seat adjustment in the upcoming assembly elections due next month.
Member of Congress Working Committee (CWC) and In-charge of Tripura Ajay Kumar met the Secretary of the state unit of CPI-M, Jitendra Chowdhury in the CPI(M) party office here last night in presence of Left Front Convener Narayan Kar and discussed about fighting the BJP unitedly in the elections.
After the meeting, Chowdhury told reporters that both the parties have on principle agreed to fight the ensuing elections against the misrule of the ruling BJP and to respect the aspirations of the common masses.
He said, “The Congress and CPI-M discussed in open mind and it was decided that two teams from both sides will seat together to formulate a strategy and finalise the seat sharing. Discussions would continue”.
Chowdhury alleged that people’s voice is choked in the ‘misrule’ of BJP and law and order has collapsed and in such a situation the number of seats is not important but the defeat of BJP is the main agenda.
Kumar also said that when the law and order is in bad shape, crime against women is on the rise and all democratic systems are dysfunctional the two parties have come closer to the common enemy.
Meanwhile, the ruling BJP today sharply criticized understanding between the two rival parties as an “unholy alliance”
Addressing a press conference at the state BJP Office here, state Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said, “It is an instance of unholy alliance guided by the greed of grabbing power, but people would not accept it”.
Taking a swipe on Congress leadership for initiating the proposal of making alliance with its long-time political rival in Tripura, he said, “Congress and CPIM used to accuse each other of political violence, now they are planning to join hands by making pre-poll alliance to fight against BJP.”
Chowdhury, who is the former Youth Congress President, said; in the 25-year’s Marxist rule thousands of Congress activists were murdered, women raped and houses burnt.
Chaudhary, said the Congress leadership had failed to defeat the CPIM in Tripura for 25 years since 1993 due to clandestine understanding of the central leadership of the two parties, but BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi succeeded in ousting the CIPM in the state in 2018 elections.
Chowdhury also claimed that the alliance would not bring any fruitful results for the two parties in the ensuing elections due in February next and BJP has nothing to worry about it. FD JK