CPI(M) MP Urges V-P Dhankhar To Probe Attack On Parliamentary Delegation In Violence-Hit Tripura

The CPI(M) MP said Elamaram Kareem MP was a part of a fact-finding team of Opposition MPs who went to Tripura amid widespread post-poll violence.

CPI(M) MP Dr V Sivadasan ( Image Source :ANI )

New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP Dr V Sivadasan wrote to Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday urging him to investigate the attack on the delegation led by MP Elamaram Kareem who went to violence-hit areas in Tripura and ensure appropriate action against the culprits, news agenc ANI reported.

In a letter to Dhankhar, Sivadasan wrote, “I would like to seek your kind and urgent attention towards the extremely condemnable incident of an outrageous attack on the CPI(M) Rajya Sabha floor leader Elamaram Kareem MP in Tripura. Other members who were in the delegation include Abdul Khaleque (MP, Loksabha), CPI(M) Tripura State Secretary Jitendra Chaudhary MLA, and AICC General Secretary Ajoy Kumar.”

The CPI(M) MP said Elamaram Kareem MP was a part of a fact-finding team of Opposition MPs who went to Tripura amid widespread post-poll violence.

While the delegation was talking to people, a gang of goons launched an attack and raised slogans about BJP. The assailants smashed the vehicles and triggered an atmosphere of terror, Sivadasan said.

“The violence unleashed in Tripura is crossing all the limits. Over a thousand incidents of violence have been reported in Tripura in very few days after the legislative assembly elections. The supporters of the ruling BJP are causing huge destruction in the state. A large number of houses and properties have been burnt and destroyed,” he wrote.

“Hundreds of people and opposition party sympathisers, have been targeted and brutally attacked by criminals. It is evident that the brazen attacks are still going on. The Tripura government and the state machinery still remain as mute spectators to this” he added in the letter.

Sivadasan requested Rajya Sabha chairman to intervene in the issue to investigate the attack on the Opposition MPs and ensure appropriate action was taken against the culprits.