By our correspondent
Agartala, May 11, 2019: Day before the re-polls in 168 polling stations of West Tripura constituency, Tripura Pradesh Congress Chief Pradyot Kishore Debbarman’s sudden meeting with Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb created ripples in the Political circle. However, a press conference later in the evening by Debbarman cleared the air before rumour mills could spin ‘stories’.
Tripura Pradesh Congress President Pradyot Kishore Debbarman today urged all the political parties of the state to maintain the decorum of politics and not to bring personal issues in political slugfest. The TPCC president met Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb this afternoon and said that he held discussion with Deb on electricity bills for Ujjayanta Palace and other royal properties.
“The mainstream politics has taken a turn from real issues to personal attacks. First, it was noticed in the national politics and gradually the same culture had crept into political arena of the state”, Pradyot told the media today in Agartala.
Talking about pending electric bills of Royal properties, Pradyot said, the government of India in a letter dated 1956 exempted Ujjyanta Palace of paying electricity bills. The central government also directed the state government to provide electricity to the Ujjyanta palace with 26,500 units per annum absolutely free of cost.
Meanwhile, former Member of Parliament and his mother Bibhu Kumari Devi had also written to the Chief Minister regarding the issue. In her letter, she wrote, “Ujjyanta palace has been given exemption of electricity up to 26,500 units annually for my husband and mother-in-law’s contribution to the state post merger. Yet the state government had decided to ignore the contribution of my husband and did not give reply to my letters”. He urged the Chief Minister to inquire after if there is any complaint of pending bills at those properties which did not come under the said exemption.
