Agartala, Mar 02, 2013 : Total mayhem ruled Tripura Pradesh Congress Bhawan on Saturday as a section of dissented Congress supporters literally abused, pushed, kicked and physically hackled national Congress leaders including Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, AICC General Secretary Luizinho Faleiro, AICC General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed and Tripura Pradesh Congress president Sudip Roy Barman. Party supporters from Joynagar, Pratapgarh, Khayerpur areas, who were allegedly driven out of their homes by post-poll violence from left camp since February 28, had assembled at the Pradesh Congress Bhawan since this morning.
The dissented lot was expecting to speak out their grievances with the national Congress leaders. However, the short meeting among PCC President and the national leaders was followed by an even shorter press briefing following which all the leaders were on their way out of the Congress Bhawan. The trouble started when the leaders started ascending the stairs out of the party office.
A group of party supporters came up and started hand-to-hand scramble with the leaders. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, AICC leaders Shakeel Ahmed, Luizinho Faleiro were assaulted, PCC president was thumped alongwith several other leaders of the party. National Security Guards (NSG), who came to protect Assam Chief Minister, later rescued the high-profile delegation of AICC. Shibani Sengupta, resident of Joynagar, Mithun Shil, resident of Pratapgarh and many more, who took active part in the scuffle, stated later today that they were forced out of their homes due to post-poll violence by CPI (M) cadres. “None of the PCC leaders came to see us. We were out of our homes and they chose to disconnect our phone calls, leaving us helpless before our tormentors”, she said adding that the PCC top brass has to answer for this day. “We don’t want these leaders. They will have to answer for the defeat in election. It is their liability. We want them changed. Pradesh Congress leadership has to change”, said Mithun Shil.
The dissented lot was expecting to speak out their grievances with the national Congress leaders. However, the short meeting among PCC President and the national leaders was followed by an even shorter press briefing following which all the leaders were on their way out of the Congress Bhawan. The trouble started when the leaders started ascending the stairs out of the party office.
A group of party supporters came up and started hand-to-hand scramble with the leaders. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, AICC leaders Shakeel Ahmed, Luizinho Faleiro were assaulted, PCC president was thumped alongwith several other leaders of the party. National Security Guards (NSG), who came to protect Assam Chief Minister, later rescued the high-profile delegation of AICC. Shibani Sengupta, resident of Joynagar, Mithun Shil, resident of Pratapgarh and many more, who took active part in the scuffle, stated later today that they were forced out of their homes due to post-poll violence by CPI (M) cadres. “None of the PCC leaders came to see us. We were out of our homes and they chose to disconnect our phone calls, leaving us helpless before our tormentors”, she said adding that the PCC top brass has to answer for this day. “We don’t want these leaders. They will have to answer for the defeat in election. It is their liability. We want them changed. Pradesh Congress leadership has to change”, said Mithun Shil.
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