People's Democracy

Skeletal Congress Raises Skeleton Issue

CPI(M) Condemns Vandalisation of Tripura Bhavan

REDUCED to a political skeleton in Tripura, the Congress party is frantically trying to gain a political mileage from the tattered remains of a skeleton discovered recently inside the septic tack of the staff quarters in the compound of the chief minister’s official residence. A dismembered and very old skeleton was discovered during the process of cleaning the tank and within a few hours of its discovery the state government decided to entrust the CBI with the responsibility of inquiring into the incident. The entire legal and administrative process for the CBI inquiry has been on its course since then, with the CPI(M) endorsing the state government’s action in this regard as “absolutely appropriate.”

But the Congress party rotting for long in political bankruptcy in Tripura jumped at the issue immediately thereafter in a desperate bid to gain something. Various sections of the party leadership hogged the headlines of a section of the press with demands for resignation or arrest of chief minister Manik Sarkar although the current official residence of the chief minister had earlier been occupied by Congress ministers first and then by the first and second Left Front chief minister Nripen Chakraborty, by the Congress-led coalition minister Surajit Datta and by the third Left Front government chief minister Dasarath Deb in chronological order.

The political bankruptcy of the Congress party in Tripura exceeded its boundaries when a gang of Congress goons under the name of the party’s student’s wing NSUI raided the Tripura Bhavan in Guwahati on this issue and went on a rampage. A notorious Congress hoodlum of Arundhutinagar area of Agartala was identified to have been involved in the mindless  motivated orgy which not only inflicted extensive damage on the state government’s property in Guwahati but also injured the wife and daughter of the joint resident commissioner in connection with the skeleton issue.

Entire Tripura was rocked with roaring protest against the provocative rampage of the Congress goons under the garb of NSUI at Guwahati Tripura Bhavan on January 9. Four Leftist students and youth organisations SFI, TSU, DYFI, TYF took out a massive protest march converging into a rally in Agartala on the evening of January 10. Reports are pouring in from several areas where CPI(M) local committees have taken out similar marches and conducted meetings.

In a statement issued on January 9, the CPI(M) state secretariat vehemently condemned the vandalism of the Congress party at the Guwahati Tripura Bhavan. It also criticized the Congress-led Assam government for displaying inertia during the ransacking of the Tripura government’s property in the state capital.

The CPI(M) has also expressed its amazement over the abnormal reaction of the Congress party in Tripura to the CBI inquiry into the whereabouts of a skeleton unearthed in the staff quarters of the CM residence. The democratic-minded and politically seasoned people of Tripura shall foil the diversionary tactics of the bankrupt state leadership of the Congress party afraid of the light of truth, the CPI(M) maintained.

Meanwhile, protests are continuing in full swing through marches and meetings across the state against the NSUI rowdyism at Guwahati Tripura Bhavan. (INN)