Ruling BJP slams opposition Congress for demanding Prez rule

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Aug 22, 2022

Agartala, Aug 22: The ruling BJP in Tripura today slammed the opposition Congress for demanding imposition of President’s rule and condemned it for tarnishing the image of the state Government.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP office here, state Information and Culture Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said AICC general secretary Ajay Kumar and party MLA Sudip Roy Burman held a press conference in Delhi on Sunday with a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of Tripura by demanding president’s rule on the law and order issue.

“It is a deliberate attempt by them to tarnish the image of a government, which is delivering good governance, only for their narrow political ends. President’s rule cannot be imposed by the back door because Narendra Modi is now at the helm of affairs. President’s rule was imposed in Tripura in 1993, when Narsimha Rao was the president and CPI-M led Left Front came to power by defeating Congress”, Chowdhury said.

Elections to the sixty-member assembly in Tripura are scheduled for March next year.

He alleged that Congress had always a clandestine understanding with the CPI-M and the congress has raised the demand only to handover the power to CPI-M.

“During the twenty five years rules of the communists the law and order had withered away, murder and rape of women was rampant, but Sudip Roy Burman, who was a Congress legislator that time did not raise the demand for president’s rule”, he alleged.

The Congress and CPI-M have an understanding to defeat the BJP government in the next elections, but it would not be possible because people have faith on our government.