It was well past Friday midnight, a group of miscreants attacked party office of the ruling BJP at Bagma in Tripura which prompted another group to counter-attack Congress party office in the same area.
Attack and counter-attack led to political tension and chaos in the area on early hours of Saturday. In the melee, one Congress supporter suffered head injuries and was rushed to Tepania District Hospital. A goods carrier was also damaged.
It all started with ransacking the BJP office at Bagma Bazar under Gomati district in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. Miscreants also tore down party flags and festoons. Following this, another group of miscreants attacked Congress party Office and vandalized the office.
As reports of attack and counter-attack spread, supporters of both BJP and Congress assembled in Bagma Bazar increasing the tension. Amidst blames and counter blames, chaos prevailed. At that one of Congress man was attacked and was left with head injuries. Miscreants also damaged one goods-ladden vehicle at the Bagma Bazar.
Fire service personnel took the injured Congress man to the district Hospital. Police from Bagma Outpost and RK Pur PS reached the spot and brought the situation under control.
Even as no further untoward incident was reported, so far – simmering tension is palpable. Considering the volatile situation, security was beefed up.
Later, Tribal Welfare Minister and a local MLA Rampada Jamatia went to the spot and interacted with party workers to assess the situation.
The Minister condemned the attack on saffron party office and said, miscreants of some of the Opposition parties have become scared after witnessing joining of people in BJP. Out of the fear, they vandalized our party office. However, miscreants’ ploy to scare common people and prevent BJP from storming back to power will not be effective”.
Local Congress Party leader slammed the ruling party and said, BJP is fast losing grounds and that is why they are launching attacks on us.
Besides, tension started to build up at Jamjuri in Udaipur under the same district centering over Congress called ‘Jana Sampark Abhiyan’ on Saturday. Supporters of both the parties were on the verge of a showdown. However, the clash or violent fallout could be averted.
