Guwahati: The opposition CPI(M) in Tripura has called for an investigation into several motorcycles with Uttar Pradesh licence plates that were parked on the grounds of a state-run hostel in Agartala.
For the past week, a number of motorcycles with Uttar Pradesh licence plates have been parked at the government-run Shahid Bhagat Singh Youth Hostel close to the Civil Secretariat.
Jitendra Choudhury, the state secretary of the Tripura CPI-M, has written to both the Indian Election Commission and the state’s chief secretary, JK Sinha, requesting a “impartial probe” into the incident to determine who is the rightful owner of the motorcycles.
Choudhury said, “Before the last Assembly election in 2018, BJP had distributed among its workers hundreds of bikes. Those bikes were used to carry on repression on the opposition supporters and subvert democratic rights of the common people.”
He continued by saying that the people of Tripura had witnessed “awful attacks” carried out by “gangsters” riding bikes belonging to the BJP, who continued “ransacking, robbing, demolishing, and setting on fire” numerous homes owned by followers of the opposition party.
Sushmita Dev, a Rajya Sabha member for the Trinamool Congress, demanded an investigation into the purchase of multiple bikes with Uttar Pradesh registration numbers in the state in a letter to the DGP earlier.