10 injured in CPM, BJP clashes across Tripura

AGARTALA: At least 10 people were injured in fresh clashes between Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers in different parts of Tripura on Wednesday, police said, adding that two people were arrested so far in connection with the matter.

Trouble began in Udaipur town after CPM’S youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) took out a procession and a few activists from the rally allegedly attacked a BJP activist, news agency PTI reported. A group of BJP activists retaliated by attacking the DYFI procession.

Two CPM party offices and nearly six vehicles were set on fire while offices were ransacked at Bishalgarh in Sepahijala district,

Udaipur in Gomati district and, Agartala and Hapania in West District. “A case has been registered at Udaipur after one Mafiz Miah was injured. Two persons have been arrested so far,” a police official in Agartala said. The two sides earlier clashed on Monday in Sepahijala district, the police said. The CPM alleged that the BJP cadres broke the gate of the former’s party office at Bishalgarh with the help of a bulldozer before setting the premises ablaze. This was followed by ransacking of the Sadar organisational district office and party headquarters at Melarmath in Agartala, the party said. “I was inside the party headquarters when the BJP workers came and destroyed our party documents,” Left convener Bijan Dhar said. The BJP alleged that seven of their activists were injured after they were attacked by CPM cadres.