Congress alleges ‘state sponsored’ terrorism in North East

The Congress on Tuesday alleged that “state sponsored” terrorism was being committed in the North-East, raising alarm over the rising political violence in Tripura ahead of panchayat elections.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, senior party leader and AICC spokesperson Ajoy Kumar alleged that the violence was being carried out by the people belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party, whom he described as the “congenital rioters”.
Ajoy Kumar said the level and extent of violence in Tripura was unimaginable and unexplainable and it was being carried out at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He said this was being sponsored by the BJP top brass to win the panchayat elections.
He claimed, it was proved when a BJP minister, Tinku Roy, visited a particular area and immediately after his visit rioting broke out there and fifty shops and houses were set afire there. “If you are an ordinary worker, your chances of getting killed are high,” he remarked.
Ajoy Kumar alleged that it was the same script and gameplan of the BJP to divide and polarise people to win elections. He said, they did it in Manipur by dividing Meiteis and Kukis, who were otherwise living in harmony for over hundred years.
He said, now the BJP was applying the same formula in Tripura to create a division between tribal and non tribal population. He alleged that the BJP was only bothered about winning elections even at the cost of unity and harmony between the people.