Tripura Pradesh Congress held a joining programme in Congress Bhavan in Agartala on Wednesday. In the programme, total 84 leaders and supporters joined Congress from other parties.
Among the notable, Congress roped in former chairperson of Dharmanagar Municipal Council Chayan Bhattacharjee and CPM leader Dibyendu Nath.
Speaking to the media, Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman, who quit BJP this year and joined Congress, gave the break-up and said, 50 leaders and supporters from CPM, 25 from BJP and nine from TMC quit their parties and joined Congress to bolster the Party and oust the BJP.
Among others, Central Congress leader Szarita Laiphlang, and state leaders – Gopal Roy and Ashish Saha were present in the programme.
Pradesh Congress leaders welcomed the new entrants and exuded confidence in the Congress party’s victory in the State.
In this connection, Roy Barman said, “BJP’s coming to power in our state in 2018 was a case of a political and electoral accident. It was a blunder also and the people of the state are paying a price for this. It is high time that we all start working hard on a concrete action program to ensure the unseating of BJP democratically from the state.”
He also claimed BJP has no vote bank as such in Tripura and that is why they have no alternative but to depend on rigging and mafia activities to remain in power”. He appealed to people to raise voices against the ruling party.
“We have to be united and defeat the BJP to uphold the rights of people”, Roy Barma commented.