Manik Sarkar's security increased as he faces 'obstruction'
Agartala, June 12: Former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar's security has been increased as the "BJP workers continued to obstruct" his tour to tribal dominated areas in Dhalai district since Monday, police said on Tuesday.
Sarkar, now the Leader of Opposition in Tripura, accompanied by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Chief Whip in the assembly and former minister Tapan Chakraborty and party legislator Pravat Chowdhury, went to the tribal dominated areas in Dhalai district on Monday to see the crisis of food, rural jobs and other scarcities there.
"We have deployed huge additional security forces for Sarkar and other leaders' visit to Gandachara and nearby areas. Like Monday, some people were shouting slogans against Sarkar on Tuesday also," Dhalai district police chief Sudipta Das told IANS.
A CPI-M leader, accompanying Sarkar, said that the ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and IPFT (Indigenous People's Front of Tripura) workers continued the protest on Tuesday against the former Chief Minister's visit to the tribal inhabited areas.
"CPI-M Chief Whip in Lok Sabha on Monday talked to Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb over phone on the issue and after that yesterday's (Monday) obstruction by BJP-IPFT workers was withdrawn," a CPI-M statement said here on Monday night.
It said: "BJP-IPFT workers undemocratically creating blockade against the opposition leader and other CPI-M legislators' visit to the interior areas to prevent the exposure of huge crisis of food and other basics in the tribal populated areas."
"Already, two tribals died due to starvation related diseases in Dhalai district. Hundreds of people are going to neighbouring Bangladesh for their survival. Rural jobs under the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) are almost stopped. The BJP government remained mute spectator," the CPI-M statement said.
The BJP, however, denied that any of its workers was involved in blockading Sarkar's tour.
"During the regime of CPI-M-led Left Front, people did not see the faces of Left leaders in the interior areas. Now the common people are agitating against their politics. No BJP worker is involved in the obstruction to Sarkar's visit to different areas of Dhalai district," BJP spokesman Mrinal Kanti Deb told the media.
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Thieves break into forest officer’s house in Ullal, decamp with bike, jewellery and ₹10.5 lakh cash
Mangaluru: Thieves broke into the rented house of a forest officer in the Kotekar sub-division of Ullal and stole a motorbike, ₹10.5 lakh in cash and gold and silver jewellery weighing about 181 grams, police said. The incident came to light on Thursday morning after Mehboob returned home from his native after nearly one week
The victim, Mehboob Saab Gudihola, had been living in the house with his wife and child for the past six months. According to the complaint, the family had travelled to their native place in Koppal on Friday.
The theft came to light when Gudihola returned home on Thursday morning and found that the house had been broken into.
In his complaint to police, Gudihola said the accused had entered the house through the main door and broke open cupboards in two rooms. The thieves allegedly stole gold and silver jewellery weighing around 181 grams, including ornaments belonging to the child.
They also took away ₹10.5 lakh in cash, which Gudihola told police he had brought home after availing a bank loan. In addition, a motorbike parked on the premises was also stolen.
Following the complaint, Ullal Police registered a case and launched an investigation. A dog squad and forensic experts visited the house and conducted an inspection.
