Written by Adrija Roychowdhury | New Delhi | Updated: March 6 2018 10:29 pm On Tuesday the legacy of the Soviet leader in India received a disturbing jolt when a statue of his in Belonia town of Tripura was brought down by an enthusiastic crowd of BJP supporters amid cries of Bharat mata ki jai. (Wikimedia Commons) On February 17 1920 a group of Indian revolutionaries met in Kabul to pass a resolution. The resolution directed at the Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin expressed deep admiration of Soviet Russia s working class struggle that was led by him. The Indian revolutionaries express their deep gratitude and their admiration of the great struggle carried on by Soviet Russia for the liberation of all oppressed classes and peoples and especially for the liberation of India said the statement. Just about a couple of months later Lenin responded to the Indian call. I am glad to hear that the principles of self-determination and the liberation of oppressed nations from exploitation by foreign and native capitalists proclaimed by the Workers and Peasants Republic have met with such a ready response among progressive Indians who are waging a heroic fight for freedom he said. For the revolutionary leader an India free from an oppressive British rule was a necessary prerequisite for a decisive defeat of an exploitative capitalist system. Lenin was sure that the Russian revolution would be incomplete unless it was followed by a similar uprising of workers and peasants across Europe and Asia. The anti-colonial struggle in this regard was a necessity an essential step in that direction and Lenin did everything in his capacity to motivate and support a revolution against imperialist rules. On Tuesday the legacy of the http://id.kaywa.com/kkamazon Soviet leader in India received a disturbing jolt when a statue of his in Belonia town of Tripura was brought down by an enthusiastic crowd of BJP supporters amid cries of Bharat mata ki jai. The demolition was on one hand justified by the BJP as a reaction by those being oppressed by the Left. On the other hand though the CPI-M explained the act as the manifestation of Communism phobia . Even if it was a statue of our former CPI(M) chief minister Nripen Chakraborty nobody would have touched it he was one of us and belonged to the country. But what does this foreigner Lenin have to do with our people? remarked BJP south district secretary Raju Nath in response to the incident. The incident took place just days after the BJP made a sweeping victory in the state that had been a Communist citadel for decades. While the motive of the act remains debatable what is indisputable is the disdain for one of the most important communist revolutionaries of the world. What is further necessary to dwell upon is the lesser known details of the support that Lenin lent to both the rise of a communist movement in India and to the anti-colonial struggle that gave birth to a free India. Two decades before the Russian revolution Lenin had been aggressively advocating the need for an international community of revolutionaries. In his article Inflammable material in world politics written in August 1908 the leader made a detailed analysis of the revolutionary movements across the world admiring their intensity and appreciating the diversity of their methods in pulling down those who prey and exploit. The international movement in various European and Asian countries has latterly made itself felt so weightily that we see before us the fairly clear outlines of a new and incomparably higher stage in the international proletarian struggle he wrote. The counter-revolution in Persia the revolutionary movement in the army led by young Turks and the movement against the medieval order in China were discussed with much eagerness by the Communist leader. While discussing India Lenin showered praises upon the natives who in the early years of the twentieth century had risen in rebellion against the civilised British unsettling them from their position of security. In India lately the native slaves of the civilised British capitalists have been a source of worry to their masters he wrote. He celebrated the rise of the Indian proletariat and the potential they carried within themselves in consolidating an international revolution led by the working classes. But perhaps the most noteworthy of contributions made by the Russian giant to the revolutionary process in India was the support it lent in shaping the Communist Party of India (CPI). It was Lenin who personally received the founder of the CPI MN Roy in Moscow where he was invited to attend the second world congress of the Communist International and it was he who led Roy to formulate his ideas as a supplement to Roy s thesis on the national and colonial questions. It was under Lenin s guidance that Roy published his writings in the weekly bulletin of the Communist International and also served as a member of the organisation s presidium for eight years. During this period Roy was mentored by Lenin to prepare the East for its moment of revolution. From Moscow Roy published some of his most influential writings including India in transition The future of Indian politics and his own journal The Vanguard which would eventually become the organ of the CPI. During this period still under the tutelage of Lenin Roy founded the CPI at Tashkent in October 1920. In the decades to come the CPI would not just become the face of the Communist movement in India but would also shape much of the nationalist movement and the political landscape of independent India. For all the latest Research News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd Tags: Lenin Tripura CChandrashekarMar 7 2018 at 8:47 amContemporory article which bring awareness among the Indian youth about the lenin and ppl who asks what the lenin did to India.(0)(0) Reply SSalMar 7 2018 at 7:19 amNothing has filled hatred in Indians as much as these communists have. How will they help democracy by ideals that aim to abolish it?(0)(0) Reply SShabbirMar 7 2018 at 3:51 amBy demolishing the statue of a revolutionist you are actually creating soft corners among its followers and future generations. You can only kill an ideology by grabbing an edge with your own. And It only comes with a disciplined organized party like once Marxist did and that s why they were so successful. In a revolutionary process you don t shed blood of others but you shed your own.(2)(2) ReplyTThrinethran TMar 7 2018 at 6:15 amDo introspect why Russia did not celebrate the Revolution Centenary . The terror bloodshed and repression the sacrifice of millions upon millions of lives can now only appeal to people of impaired thought and feeling.(0)(0) Reply LlakshmiMar 7 2018 at 12:17 amCOW IS MY MOTHER CALF MY BROTHER BULL MY FATHER NEXT TIME I WANT TO BORN AS COW WORTHY OF WORSHIP UNTOUCHABLE ANDUNCLEAN HUMAN IS LESS THAN COW MATHA-----HA HA WHERE ARE WE GOING? BACKWARDS OR FORWARDS? I SAW A TRAFFIC GUARD HOLDING SCHOOL CHILDREN BACK FROM CROSSING ROAD TO LET COW MATHA JI CROSS THE ROAD FIRST ON HER WY TO FEED GARBAGE HEAP JAI COW MATHA JI KI JAYAHO COW MATHA JI AND WE EXPORT MOST BEEF IN THE WORLD! GREAT BJP FROM NOW ON ALL NON DALITS SHOULD WEar CROSS BELT JANDHYAM HOW COME RICH SUDRAS SURRENDERED TO BRAHMINS? FEAR FACTOR.? EASY NOWJ COW MATHA JI ki jai(3)(1) Reply Vijay SimhaMar 6 2018 at 11:38 pmWe Indians repudiate the Sordid legacies of all Communist Dictators starting with Lenin and ending with Kim-Jong-Un. We know exactly what communism stands for and will eradicate it all together from the political stage in India. If the communists do not go quietly then what will follow is Night and Fog ! Make no mistake billions of Indians have lost their patience. Nacht und Nebel will be implemented and communists will just disappear. Kill Cremate Scatter ashes will be the procedure followed. Not one communist in India will be spared.(9)(3) Reply Load More Comments
Two days after a statue of Vladimir Lenin was toppled in Tripura s Belonia town allegedly by Bharatiya Janata Party workers a BJP office in Tamil Nadu s Coimbatore was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday according to media reports. #BREAKING -- BJP office attacked by miscreants in Coimbatore Tamil Nadu; Petrol bombs hurled early morning | @RevathiRajeevan with more details pic.twitter.com/SAT4NPKgAn News18 (@CNNnews18) March 7 2018 The CCTV footage as reported by CNN-News18 shows unidentified miscreants throwing petrol bombs at the building. Coimbatore: A petrol bomb was hurled at BJP office earlier today #TamilNadu pic.twitter.com/79x0FrjAZo ANI (@ANI) March 7 2018 Reports say that the police is currently investigating the incident and more details are expected to emerge soon. In another incident in the state s Vellore district a statue of Dravidian activist Periyar inside the Tirupattur corporation office was vandalised on Tuesday. The police has arrested two people in relation to the crime. The incident comes hours after Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja said that EV Ramasamy commonly known as Periyar would meet a fate similar to Lenin in Tamil Nadu. Raja slammed Periyar in a post he put up on Facebook which was later deleted. Who is Lenin? What is his connection with India? What is the connection between Communism and India? Lenin s statue was broken down in Tripura. Today it is Lenin s statue in Tripura. Tomorrow it will be the caste zealot EV Ramasamy s (Periyar) statue in Tamil Nadu he had written. #TamilNadu : Periyar statue inside Tirupattur corporation office vandalised in Vellore district. Two persons arrested by Police. pic.twitter.com/F8ufRU121e ANI (@ANI) March 7 2018 On Monday the Lenin statue s vandalism was part of large-scale violence reported from Tripura as CPM offices in different parts of the state were defaced. A report on The Indian Express said the Lenin s statue had stood in Belonia s College Square for the last five years before it was brought down by BJP workers to the cries of Bharat Mata Ki Jai . The CPM has decried the violence and termed it Communism phobia . BJP national secretary Ram Madhav tweeted out a post saying people are taking down Lenin s statue and used the party s slogan for the Tripura elections Chalo Paltai with it. However he later deleted it. With inputs from agencies
A war of words has broken out between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition over the toppling of Vladimir Lenin s statue in Tripura on Tuesday morning. It started after the statue was toppled in the state s Belonia town allegedly by BJP workers. The statue s vandalism was part of large-scale violence reported from Tripura as CPM offices in different parts of the state were defaced. But even as the CPM was decrying the violence and terming it Communism phobia BJP leaders waded into the debate. The party s national secretary Ram Madhav tweeted out a post saying people are taking down Lenin s statue and used the party s slogan for the Tripura elections Chalo Paltai with it. However he later deleted it. BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy also appeared to support the razing of Lenin s statue even calling the Russian revolutionary a terrorist and a foreigner. Lenin is a foreigner and in a way a terrorist. There shouldn t be a statue of this sort of person in our country. They are welcome to put that statue inside the communist party headquarters and worship it if they so wish Swamy was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI. #Lenin to videshi hai ek parakar se antankwadi hai aise vyakti ka humare desh mein statue? Woh statue Communist party ke headquarters ke andar rakh sakte hain aur pooja karen :Subramanian Swamy pic.twitter.com/DUDVFApSCT ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 But even while the controversy continued to rage Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja stoked the fire further by saying EV Ramasamy commonly known as Periyar will meet a similar fate. Raja slammed Periyar in a post he put up on Facebook although he subsequently deleted it. H Raja deleted his post soon after publishing it Periyar was a 20th Century thinker activist and politician who started the self-respect movement against Brahmin and upper caste hegemony. He is revered as a champion of the Dravidian movement in South India. Who is Lenin? What is his connection with India? What is the connection between Communism and India? Lenin s statue was broken down in Tripura. Today it is Lenin s statue in Tripura. Tomorrow it will be the caste zealot EV Ramasamy s (Periyar) statue in Tamil Nadu he had written. But the damage had clearly been done already. MK Stalin working president of the DMK which revers Periyar and owes much of its ideology to the Dravidian cause slammed Raja who is also the BJP national secretary. Stalin said Raja should be arrested under the Goondas Act The News Minute reported Stalin as saying. No one can even dare to touch EVR s statue. H Raja s comments have incited violence. He has been repeatedly doing this. He should be arrested and Goondas Act slapped against him Stalin was quoted as saying. DMK spokesperson A Saravanan was also quoted in the article as saying the party will organise protests against Raja and the BJP in many parts of the state. This is pure hate and Talibanisation of India. Such things happen only happen in Taliban. In a democracy we don t indulge in political vandalism or threaten to do it Saravanan said.
New Delhi: The CPM on Tuesday charged the BJP with unleashing a reign of terror on Left workers in Tripura and sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in bringing the violence to an end before the situation worsened . Representational image. Reuters In a memorandum to the prime minister the party claimed the BJP had begun attacking Left supporters in the northeastern state immediately after the results of the Assembly polls were declared. We request your immediate intervention to stop these attacks and violence and to maintain peace and normalcy in the state before the situation worsened it said in the memorandum addressed to the prime minister. The party also gave a list of the alleged violent incidents and said 514 people were injured and 196 houses set on fire. After the election results were out goons of the BJP have unleashed a reign of terror and all-round attacks on members and supporters of the CPI(M) their houses party offices and mass organisation offices throughout the state said the memorandum which was submitted to Modi in Parliament. Later talking to reporters CPM leader Mohammed Salim also accused the state Governor of working like a Sangh Parivar supporter . He holds a constitutional post and is offering a stamp of approval to the unconstitutional undemocratic illegal vandalism. We hope the Centre would take note of this Salim said. Describing the post-poll situation in Tripura as highly condemnable CPI leader D Raja said the bulldozing of a Lenin statue and attacking Left cadres and their offices were nothing but fascist activities of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar . Not only the Left but all secular and democratic parties should condemn this absolute vandalism he said. Raja said the BJP leadership should take the responsibility for the collapse of law and order and such undemocratic and unconstitutional activities of its cadres in Tripura . The Left which ruled Tripura for 25 years was ousted by the BJP in state Assembly elections the results of which were declared on Saturday.
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Modi says BJP ideology won in Tripura; Lenin statue razed: 10 developments Tripura elections 2018: Modi says Cong CPI-M have secret pact - 10 points Tripura polls 2018: Sitaram Yechury stays optimistic Periscope: Modi to visit Tripura on Thursday; Adityanath s Budget on Friday Left out: The communist parties in India have lost their relevance span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Tripura continued to see post-poll violence for a fourth straight day even as the Northeast Assembly elections result 2018 sank in. Communist icon and leader Vladimir Lenin became the symbolic casualty with at least two of his statues in the state being razed or pulled down. The Left was defeated in the Tripura Assembly polls 2018 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (IPFT) which together won a two-thirds majority in the House in a state where the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) had been in power for 25 years. Both the BJP and the CPI(M) have urged everyone to maintain peace. Chief Minister-designate Biplab Kumar Deb repeatedly urged Tripura s people not to disturb the peace and abstain from attacking the rival party s members. He said that anybody indulging in violence would be punished. On Tuesday Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to state Governor Tathagata Roy and the director general of police and asked them to ensure peace till a new government was installed. Meanwhile according to reports at least two statues of communist leader Lenin were brought down in South Tripura. Along with the CPI(M) Opposition parties including the Congress and the All India Trinamool Congress condemned the razing of these statues. Here are the top 10 developments surrounding the post-poll violence in Tripura and the razing of Lenin s statues: 1) Two Lenin statues brought down in Tripura: BJP activists razed two statues of Vladimir Lenin in Tripura CPI(M) leaders said. On Tuesday night Tripura CPI(M) State Secretary Bijan Dhar said: A statue of Vladimir Lenin was knocked down by BJP activists on Monday night at Sabroom in southern Tripura. He added The statue was set up a few years ago. Sabroom is 135 km south of the state capital. On Monday evening BJP activists brought down an 11.5-feet fibre statue of Vladimir Lenin with a bulldozer in Belonia according to an earlier report. Speaking to the media earlier on Tuesday CPI(M) leader Haripada Das said: The BJP supporters chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai knocked down the statue of Lenin near a government college in Belonia. Das added that the statue was set up a year ago in Belonia South Tripura s district headquarters around 90 km from Agartala. The state police corroborated the fact that the communist icon s statues had been razed. On Tuesday the police said that two statues of Vladimir Lenin were brought down in South Tripura. The statues were pulled down just days after the Left was defeated in the 2018 Assembly polls by the BJP and its ally IPFT. A statue of Vladimir Lenin brought down at Sabroom Motor Stand in #Tripura. pic.twitter.com/JLe3tFwEJO ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 2) Post-poll violence continues; CPI(M) blames BJP IPFT: The CPI(M) has accused the BJP and the IPFT of unleashing an unprecedented reign of terror across the state after the Tripura Assembly election 2018 results were announced on March 3. Das said We are getting a huge number of reports from different districts on Tuesday about BJP and IPFT workers attacking CPI-M members and supporters and demolishing their assets. Since Saturday around 520 CPI(M) supporters have been injured in attacks by BJP and IPFT party workers in more than 225 places across Tripura Dhar alleged. Speaking to the media Dhar said: Arsoning attacks and loot were carried out in around 1 745 houses. Many rubber gardens and small vehicles hundreds of small shops were forcibly occupied ransacked or burned at around 500 places. According to him on Tuesday Taher Mia a middle-aged man died of a heart attack when BJP workers detonated crude bombs in front of his house at Baxanagar in Western Tripura. He added that across the state around 535 party offices and CPI(M) s frontal organisation offices were attacked forcibly captured and set on fire. Dhar also a CPI(M) central committee member said We urge the administration and the BJP leadership to take adequate measures to stop this post-poll violence immediately. Dhar added In a democratic system a change of government is usual but violence in such a grave form is not acceptable. ALSO READ: Modi says BJP ideology won in Tripura; Lenin statue razed: 10 developments 3) BJP accuses CPI(M) of provoking violence : The BJP for its part has accused the Left party of attacks on its supporters. Tripura BJP Vice-President Subal Bhowmik accused the CPI(M) of deliberately provoking and indulging in violence and attacks on BJP supporters . Bhowmik said that there have been 49 incidents of attacks on party workers and supporters by CPI(M) cadre in the past 48 hours. He added that 17 BJP supporters were injured in these attacks. He warned all concerned that the law would take its own course against the attackers irrespective of party affiliations. ALSO READ: Biplab Kumar Deb to be next Tripura CM Jishnu Debbarma his deputy 4) Prohibitory orders in place: In an attempt to prevent post-poll violence the district administration in several districts deployed additional security forces and promulgated prohibitory orders. Such actions came following reports of clashes between BJP and CPI-M workers in different parts of Tripura. Further according to district magistrate Milind Ramteke prohibitory orders were clamped down on several areas of West Tripura district including Srinagar Lefunga Mandai Amtali Radhapur Arundhatinagar Jirania and Mohanpur. West Tripura district police chief Abhijit Saptarshi said that the police have arrested some people in Mandai in Western Tripura for indulging in violence. ALSO READ: Northeast elections 2018: Why BJP is so desperate to hype its Tripura win 5) Congress slams BJP for pulling down Lenin s statues: The Congress on Tuesday flayed the BJP in Tripura for pulling down statues of Vladimir Lenin. The Opposition party said that the BJP was intolerant adding that a government that is intolerant cannot run a democracy. Further the Congress said that the BJP had become arrogant after coming to power in the state. There is not tolerance in them. The government which is intolerant cannot be democratic. To run a democracy they have to be tolerant said senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge adding This is what the Constitution says. Unless there is liberty equality fraternity and tolerance the government cannot be run in a democratic way. After coming to power they have become arrogant and are making mistakes Kharge said adding They are not just pulling down statues of leaders like Lenin but are also killing Dalits and spreading hatred apart from harassing and threatening people. ALSO READ: Tripura defeat: Need a secular front to counter BJP-RSS says Yechury 6) Kolkata s Left protests: On Tuesday hundreds of Left activists poured out on the streets of Kolkata protesting the razing of a statue of Lenin in Tripura. The Communist Party of India-Marxist brought out a huge rally from its Kolkata district office to the base of the Communist patriarch s statue in the city hub Dharamtala. Senior CPI-M leaders including General Secretary Sitaram Yechury politburo members Prakash Karat Brinda Karat Secretary of its West Bengal unit Surjya Kanta Mishra and state Left Front chairman Biman Bose participated in the rally. Delegates attending the party s ongoing 25th state conference also walked the distance. While raising slogans condemning the incident the protestors carried banners with images of Lenin and held aloft scores of red flags. They also decried the attacks on Marxist cadres instances of arson targeting CPI-M offices and their capture by BJP goons and the ransacking of houses of CPI-M workers and leaders. To protest the happenings in Tripura another Left party the Socialist Unity Centre of India-Communist burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What happened in #Tripura is unacceptable in a democratic order. If you mount this kind of attack after your victory it is a clear expression of your anti-democratic character. This will be answered back democratically: Sitaram Yechury CPI(M) pic.twitter.com/iAYwvCEYI7 ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 7) Mamata Banerjee warns the BJP: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday came down heavily on the BJP for carrying out attacks on CPI-M activists and leaders and the demolition of a statue of Lenin in Tripura. Banerjee said that she would protest against such atrocities. Speaking at a public meeting in Patrasayar in Bankura district Banerjee said: Just because somebody has formed a government it is not his job to raze statues of great men. Being in government does not mean it is somebody s job to murder some others or attack opponents. Further the Trinamool Congress chief warned the BJP that despite having an ideological fight with the CPI-M she would not accept such activities. If you feel just because you have come to power you will demolish the statue of Marx Lenin Gandhiji Netaji Swami Vivekananda we won t accept that the chief minister said adding I have fought with the CPI-M. We also came to power after 34 years. Please remember our slogan was we want change not revenge . Banerjee said that whatever was happening in Tripura was not democracy . 8) BJP engaging in third-rate violence: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has condemned the razing of Lenin s statue in the state. On Tuesday Leftist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy described the razing of a statue of Lenin in Tripura as third-rate type of violence and vandalism . The CPI general secretary also described as nonsense and meaningless Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir s statement that statues of foreign leaders have no place in India. It s all a third-rate type of violence and vandalism by the BJP. It s all a planned affair Reddy said. 9) Yechury criticises BJP-RSS: CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday criticised the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for the pulling down of a statue of Lenin in Tripura. The Left leader urged the democratic and secular forces of the country to come together against the saffron regime s fascist onslaught . He also said that while deciding on its political-tactical line for taking on the BJP the CPI(M) would discuss all options infront of the party in the upcoming party Congress. Without mentioning the Congress Yechury underlined the need for the broadest possible platform of the Left and democratic forces in the country to counter the BJP-RSS. 10) Governor Tathagata Roy posts controversial tweet: A controversial tweet posted by state Governor Tathagata Roy also raised hackles in some quarters. What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa he tweeted. What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa https://t.co/Og8S1wjrJs Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) March 5 2018 Reacting to the tweet Yechury said The tweet by the governor is unfortunate... This shows how constitutional posts are being undermined. Asked by a TV news channel for his comment Roy said Yechury may go on making charges. It is not my duty to reply. With agency inputs
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Tripura elections 2018: Modi says Cong CPI-M have secret pact - 10 points Here are the rising stars of BJP who helped it conquer the Northeast Nagaland assembly election results 2018: Allies help NDA go past the line East turns Right? 10 takeaways of Tripura Meghalaya Nagaland poll results span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 After the Tripura Assembly election results 2018 which saw the BJP demolishing the CPI(M)-led Left Front and winning a two-thirds majority together with its ally the IPFT there have been reports of sporadic violence and clashes among rival political groups in different parts of the state. Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura. Also a statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin was demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura on Monday. On Tuesday Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to the state s Governor and the DGP and asked them to ensure peace till a new government was installed. Singh was in the Northeast to attend the swearing-in of the Conrad Sangma-led Meghalaya government. In the recently concluded Assembly elections the state witnessed a change in rule after 25 years. The BJP-IPFT coalition swept the February 18 polls the results of which were declared on Saturday winning 43 of the 59 seats that went to the polls. The BJP secured 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly while its ally IPFT a tribal-based party won eight seats. The BJP has warned its leaders and supporters of stern action if they are found to be involved in post-poll violence in Tripura. Here are the top 10 developments around the cases of post-poll violence in Tripura: 1. BJP scored ideological victory in Tripura: Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the BJP s performance in Tripura an ideological victory and said the message should be spread across the country to maintain its winning streak. Modi was addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting where he was felicitated by the party leaders amid chants of Jeet Hamari Jaari Hai Ab Karnataka Ki Baari Hai (our winning streak continues now it is Karnataka s turn). The party s victory in Tripura is the victory of BJP s ideology because it was the citadel of Left since the last 25 years. We will have to maintain this winning streak by working hard Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar quoted Modi as having said in the meeting. 2. The CPI(M) charged the BJP with unleashing a reign of terror on Left workers in Tripura and sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in bringing the violence to an end before the situation worsened . In a memorandum to the prime minister the party claimed the BJP had begun attacking Left supporters in the northeastern state immediately after the results of the Assembly polls were declared. We request your immediate intervention to stop these attacks and violence and to maintain peace and normalcy in the state before the situation worsened it said in the memorandum addressed to the prime minister. 3. Mamata slams BJP for razing Lenin statute Sounding a warning to the Bharatiya Janata Party which has taken power in Tripura the Trinamool Congress chief said she would not accept such activities despite having a ideological fight with the Communist Party of India-Marxist. If you feel just because you have come to power you will demolish the statue of Marx Lenin Gandhiji Netaji Swami Vivekananda we won t accept that. I have fought with the CPI-M. We also came to power after 34 years. Please remember our slogan was we want change not revenge . So despite the CPI-M carrying out so much atrocities on us we did not pay them back in the same coin. This is not our nature. Whatever is happening there (Tripura) is not democracy. 4) Swamy defends pulling down of terrorist Lenin s statue in Tripura On Monday a statue of Left icon and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin was also demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura with the help of a bulldozer. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today defended pulling down of a statue of communist icon Lenin in Tripura saying the late Russian leader was a terrorist and questioned if the statue of such a person could be installed in India. 5) RSS loyalist Biplab to be Tripura s 11th Chief Minister: Biplab Kumar Deb the Chief Minister-designate of Tripura has been a long-time RSS volunteer who is largely credited for the BJP s turnaround in the state elections -- winning 35 out 60 assembly seats and demolishing one of the last citadels of the Left Front in the country. Deb replaced Sudhindra Dasgupta the longest-serving BJP state president in January 2015 after he was handpicked by BJP s Prabhari (central incharge) Sunil Deodhar to lead the party in the state. 6) Section 144 imposed: Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura news agency ANI reported on Tuesday. Section 144 imposed in several violence affected areas in #Tripura pic.twitter.com/bkTJV6QqTN ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura elections: BJP win over Left an ideological victory says Modi Singh asked the Governor and the DGP to check all kinds of violence and ensure peace till a new government was installed in Tripura. ALSO READ: Northeast elections 2018: Why BJP is so desperate to hype its Tripura win 7) BJP blames CPI(M) migrants warns of stern action: On Monday BJP Vice-President Subal Bhowmick said at a press meet that a section of unidentified BJP supporters who have migrated to the party from the CPI(M) were creating unrest in parts of Tripura. Anyone found to be involved in post-poll violence would be immediately expelled and legal action will be initiated against them he said. Bhowmick added that the situation was being closely monitored by the party. He warned that no one would be spared if they were found creating tension in the state. Further he alleged that CPI(M) activists too assaulted 49 BJP supporters 17 of whom had to be hospitalised. ALSO READ: IPFT puts pressure on BJP demands respectable position in Tripura cabinet 8) CPI(M) claims 240 people injured in attacks: On its end the CPI(M) has alleged that supporters and activists of the BJP-Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (BJP-IPFT) alliance were terrorising its workers since the announcement of election results on March 3. The Left party also accused them of burning its party offices. CPI(M) office secretary Haripada Das said over 240 people were injured in attacks on party offices offices of Left trade unions and homes of prominent leaders in the past 48 hours. 9) D Raja says violence not acceptable in democracy: Reacting to the news of vandalism emanating from the state CPI leader D Raja said that he strongly condemned the violence which was not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi-party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism and violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course he said. I strongly condemn this violence this is not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism&violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course: D Raja CPI pic.twitter.com/L3nl0UUgm6 ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura results will not impact Karnataka no Modi wave here: Siddaramaiah 10) PM Modi Amit Shah will take a call on IPFT s demand: Further while answering a question on the IPFT s demand for a separate state for tribals Deb said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP party chief would take a decision on this. BJP President Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi know how to give right direction to public s suggestion he said. With agency inputs
NEW DELHI: The CPM on Tuesday red flagged the sharp rise in post-poll violence against its cadres in Tripura. Alleging murderous assault of its cadres across the state the CPM announced country-wide coordinated protests against the ruling BJP-IPFT government in Tripura. The party also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi while a party delegation led by CPM MP Mohammed Salim sought to meet Union home minister Rajnath Singh to apprise him about the incidents of violence in Tripura. Until Tuesday evening the CPM alleged that there have been 520 cases of individual torture 1544 instanes of houses attacked 197 houses set on fire 134 party office attacked 64 incidents of CPM office being gutted down and 208 instances of the CPM party office being captured. Speaking to TOI from Agartala senior CPM politbureau member Gautam Das said On account of the SSB emans starting from Tuesday we appealed to the political workers to ensure peace so that children may be able to take their exams. However the sense of fear across Tripura is palpable. On Monday alleged supporters of the BJP had used JCB trucks to mow down a statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin installed in South https://www.transifex.com/user/profile/kkflipkart/ Tripura s Belonia district. Party functinaries said another statue of Lenin was also pulled down and broken at Sabroom. The political tussle was exacerbated by Tripura governor Tathagat Roy who in a tweet on Tuesday appeared to have condoned the act of pulling down the statue of Lenin. In a tweet he said What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa. While the instances of violence triggered a war of words in New Delhi BJP MP Subramaniam Swamy referred to Lenin as a terrorist who functioned as a dictator in Russia the CPM took strong exception to the spate of violence in the northeast state. in a strongly worded statement on Tuesday the Polit Bureau of the CPM condemned the unleashing of unprecedented violence and arson by the RSS/BJP all across the state of Tripura in the aftermath of their victory in the recent assembly election. The statement alleged CPM) and Left Party offices and cadres were targetted with murderous assaults. The destruction of the statue of Lenin is symbolic of the rabid anti communist anti democratic fascistic character of the RSS a statement by the party said. A delegation of Left MPs also submitted a memorandum to PM today in Parliament detailing major incidents of such attacks. This memorandum said The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) wishes to bring to your notice that after the election results to the Legislative Assembly in Tripura are out the goons of the BJP have unleashed a reign of terror and all-round attack on the members and supporters of the CPI(M) their houses Party offices and mass organization offices throughout the state. The Left also sought the PM s intervention to stop these attacks and violence and to maintain peace and normalcy in the state.
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