Left Front also demands repoll in both Lok Sabha and Ramnagar Assembly seats in Tripura

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, April 19, 2024

The left front committee of Tripura today allagged that BJP has organized pre-planned all out rigging and made the election to Tripura West (Gen) Parliamentary constituency and bye-election to 7-Ramnagar Assembly constituency a complete farce.

In a press statement issued immediately after the loksabha election today evening by the left front said that the BJP has started threatening for dire consequences if any one dare to discharge responsibility as Polling Agent of the INDIA Bloc candidate in Parliament and Assembly constituencies since closure of open campaign for the above-mentioned two constituencies. At the same time BJP has resorted to threatening to the voters in chunk on whom BJP has no trust by saying that not to come out from their houses to go for casting their votes.

But brushing all threats and odds with courage, the people have started coming out of their houses to go for casting their votes and also the selected workers of INDIA Bloc with courage have joined to perform their duty as Poling Agents. In an astonishing manner, perpetrating physical assaults most of the Polling Agents of the INDIA Bloc candidates have been driven out from the polling booths in the early hours of starting of casting of vote. On the other hands, areas after areas, the BJP political hoodlums have started preventing the identified voters from coming out of their houses. Moreover, the BJP hoodlums have resorted to throwing out the voters whom BJP has doubt or lack of political trust from voters’ queue including physical torture in barbaric manner.

Moreover, according to their ugly chalked out plan, BJP hoodlums mobilized from outside have started casting false vote in the name of the absentee voters forced by them to abstain. According to the left front press statement all these pre-meditated highly fascistic scheme of destruction of democracy in Tripura has blatantly surpassed the blemished experience of rigging of election to this Tripura West Parliamentary constituency in 2019. The Election Commission of India said so many things for conduct of free fair and peaceful normal election. This is what has been echoed by their subordinates in Tripura. But the electorate of Tripura West Lok Sabha seat and the 7-Ramnagar Assembly seat have been surprised to see the utter failure of the Election Commission to help and allow a sizeable number of electorate to exercise their franchise and the tall talks and promises made by the Election Commission have become fruitless and teethless.

Under the circumstances stated above, the left front committee, raised the demand to the Election Commission to countermand both the election held today, i.e. 1-Tripura West Parliamentary seat and bye-election to 7-Ramnagar Assembly seat. And arrange fresh election in an atmosphere where the democratic rights of the electorate is properly protected and the people’s confidence on democracy can be restored.