Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee alleged that his vehicle was attacked in Tripura on Monday.
Tweeting a video of the incident on social media, in which people standing by the roadside holding BJP flags are seen hitting his moving car with sticks, Banerjee tweeted, “Democracy in Tripura under BJP rule! Well done Biplab Kumar Deb for taking the state to new heights.”
Meanwhile, during a press conference in Agartala on Monday, Banerjee said that the Trinamool government would come to power after winning the 2023 assembly elections. Banerjee also said that that the Biplab Dev will lose the election. Pointing out that Tripura is led by ‘goons’, and the Chief Minister of the State, Biplab Kumar Dev, is nothing but a ‘scapegoat’, Banerjee said, “I came in 2016, but the situation was not worst, as it is now.” He said that the Left’s rule of 25 years and the BJP’s rule of 3 years thereafter have led to such a poor condition of the state, and also mentioned that development in the past 28 years is nil. “They (Left and BJP) played with Tripura’s future,” he added.
“I have been repeatedly detained,” Abhishek told media during the conference.
“But we could not be stopped. We are like iron. The hotter it is, the harder it will be. The more we work, the more stubborn we will be. The Trinamool has set foot in Tripura. We will build a government of democracy and development here in the next year and a half. But we need your help,” Banerjee added.
Nevertheless, the real situation is exactly opposite of what the Trinammol leader is claiming. In West Bengal, Mamata’s strength is the minority vote which amounts nearly to 28 percent. In Tripura, it is close to 7.6 percent. Mamata is looking at the tribes for whom 20 seats are reserved. If they want to get their votes, they have to accept the demand of the independent Tipland.
Mamata did not try less last time in Tripura. The Trinamool fought fiercely in 16 of the 60 seats. The person who got the highest number of votes was Madhusudan who got 435 votes. The percentage of votes Trinamool received was 0.3 (6969 votes). The Congress vote share was 1.6 percent, and the NOTA received nearly 16,000 votes respectively.
Addressing the media, Abhishek Banerjee, said that the Mamata Banerjee government has made sure that the benefits promised in the manifesto reach every door of West Bengal, and the TMC government has similar plans for Tripura.