People's Democracy

Four More CPI(M) Members Killed

IN two separate gruesome incidents on the night of August 2, extremists belonging to the outlawed NLFT killed four members of the CPI(M) under Kanchanpur police station limits in North Tripura's Kanchanpur sub-division. A complete bandh was observed on August 5 in the Kanchanpur sub-division in response to the CPI(M) call to protest these brutal killings.  The Party also organised protest rallies at various places in the sub-division.

These killings are the latest in a series of selective annihilation of CPI(M) leaders and activists as part of a heinous political plot hatched by the extremists in collusion with the Congress, to physically target the Left Front forces in the state.

At about 8 p.m. on August 2, NLFT extremist raided the house of CPI(M) supporter Latiram Reang (25) at Shailarambari village of Kanchanpur sub-division. After dragging him out of his house, the extremists shot him dead.

About four hours later on the same night, the extremists raided the house of Chandipur panchayat chairman and CPI(M) leader, Dantamani Reang, nine kilometers away from Shailarambari. Not finding him there at that time, the extremists dragged out his son, the DYFI affiliated Tribal Youth Federation (TYF)’s Chandipur branch president, Ramguna Reang (26) and took him to the house of the organisation’s branch secretary, Sandairam Reang. While similarly dragging him out of his house, the gunmen faced resistance from his mother, Ganatantrik Nari Samity activist Sumati Reang (50). They then ruthlessly shot dead the two brave youth front activists Ramguna Reang and Sandairam Reang along with the latter’s mother, women front activist Sumati Reang.

The Kanchanpur sub-division was rocked on August 3 with protest marches and meetings at several places against these two incidents of dastardly political killings.

The CPI(M) state secretariat has vehemently condemned these cruel killings. It said the TYF leaders and activists have become the special target of attack from the politico-electoral alliance between the outlawed extremist outfits’ over-ground wing, the INPT and the Congress, because the TYF members are at the forefront of protecting the tribals of Tripura from the anti-national fissiparous forces. Deeply sympathizing with the families of the martyrs, the party has called upon the peace-loving people of Tripura to unitedly isolate the unholy alliance.

The chief minister Manik Sarkar has also strongly condemned the brutal and barbaric extremist killing of the members of poor families of shifting cultivators.