Just before festival season, opposition CPI (M) organized a statewide mass protest on October 3rd next against ‘misgovernance’ of the BJP-led Tripura government and deteriorated law and order situation.

CPI (M) state secretary and leader of opposition (LoP) Jitendra Chaudhury accompanied by the convener of Left Front, Tripura Narayan Kar addressing a press conference at CPI(M) headquarters on Friday claimed that law and order situation of the state drastically  deteriorated and ‘Jungle Raj’ prevails as the police failing to perform their constitutional duties and now act like agents of BJP.

Highlighting the different kinds of crimes held across the state during the past six months, Chaudhury said that a small state like Tripura, records 215 cases of atrocities on women every month or around 52 per week.

Number of mob lynching cases were reported, besides recent communal tension in Gandacherra and Ranirbazar, he alleged and claimed that in very sector , once a President Colour awarded Tripura police now totally inactive due to their political affiliation.

Claiming that people were facing economic distress after the devastating floods in the state, Chaudhury said the CPI(M) had demanded that the flood in the state be declared a national disaster to help the affected people.

He also raised questions over distribution of relief materials to flood affected people and added that before the festive season, the villagers get several mandays of jobs under MGNREGA. Currently, job card holders are getting only 40-50 mandays a year leading to financial distress in rural areas, said Chaudhury and added that the rural economy is totally destroyed and a major section of people are suffering the crisis of jobs and food.

He also alleged that Tripura has become the capital for atrocities on women and a suffocating environment prevails across the state due to large scale hooliganism and other miscreant activities by the supporters of ruling party. He said that the state has registered 50 murder cases in the last six months, which indicated the serious law and order situation.

He said that CPI(M) has been forced to call for a large-scale demonstration during the Durga Puja festivities  due to the gravity of the situation and urged citizens to unite against widespread corruption and failure of state government.

Raising questions on the recent mass surrender of NLFT and ATTF insurgents, he stated, "The insurgency had largely been contained by 2014 due to sustained efforts of the government, security forces and with people's cooperation. There had been no insurgency related incident in the state in the last eight-nine years. The government has to clarify how come so many (584) extremists surrender now?"