Agartala, May 8 (UNI) The younger brother of BJP MLA Dr Dilip Das has joined Trinamool Congress in Unokoti district of North Tripura, accusing Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb of “misrule”.
State Trinamool Congress President Subal Bhowmik claimed that Dhiraj Das, the younger brother of the MLA, had been with BJP for last four years and worked hard to bring the party to power. But “fed up” with the vendetta politics of tyr Chief Minister, violence and corruption of the BJP-IPFT government, he crossed over to the Trinamool on Saturday. “Impressed with the development of West Bengal, especially the social welfare schemes, and the work done on health and education by the Mamata Banerjee government, Das joined TMC along with a large number of his followers in Kumarghat.
Shortly, there will be a massive erosion in BJP and they will not even be able to hold public meetings in a sizable number of constituencies,” Bhowmik stated. He alleged that the Chief Minister on Saturday visited a tea garden and addressed a rally in Kamalpur in Dhalai district where the education department allured the college students by providing 40 marks for listening to the CM. Even then, the rally flopped – people left the gathering when Deb started his speech. “Over the past four years, the state hasn’t seen any development except tall claims by the BJP and its leaders on social media and the media. The party has institutionalised corruption, bureaucratic government, encouraged criminals and anti-socials, dismantled democratic institutions and looted the public exchequer.
They will be thrown out in the next election,” Bhowmik stated. He demanded a judicial inquiry into the alleged multi-crore corruption in MGNREGA by a retired High Court judge, as Rs 230 crore funds were misappropriated through a nexus of ruling party leaders and some employees. People voted the BJP to power because they had no alternative in the 2018 assembly poll. The Left Front left the people with no option except bringing in a change of guard, he said.
And, BJP had emerged as a suitable alternative at that point of time. But the way BJP has smashed the hopes and aspirations, now people were desperately seeking another change where TMC is the best alternative, Bhowmik claimed. Meanwhile, BJP denied Bhowmik’s claim and said, “Dhiraj Das was never with BJP. He was known as a Congress worker even after the BJP came to power.
Now, whoever joins TMC is either from Congress or other parties, but not from BJP. So, we are not worried about such people.” The BJP, on the other hand, claimed that over 2500 voters in different constituencies, mostly in tribal areas, joined BJP in the last three weeks from other parties.
On Saturday, as many as 250 tribal voters from royal scion Pradyot Kishore’s TIPRA Motha and IPFT joined BJP at the party’s state headquarters and it’s only the beginning, said BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Manik Saha.
