In the first meeting of the State Level Election Campaign Committee of eight parties of INDIA Bloc in Tripura has taken massive campaign strategies to take on ruling BJP in Lok Sabha and assembly b-elections.

After the first meeting of State Level Election Campaign Committee led by joint conveners including opposition leader and CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury and senior Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman in presence of other party leaders at Agartala press club on Friday has decided that after joint and massive gathering of all political parties supporting the bloc on March 27 next, their candidate Ashish Kumar Saha for West Tripura parliamentary seat will file his nomination paper through a big rally starting from Rabindra Bhavan at Agartala.

He said on Friday the INDIA bloc candidate for the by-poll of 7-Ramnagar assembly constituency, Ratan Das filed his nomination paper after a rally and now Bloc parties are preparing more gathering in the nomination paper submission for Lok Sabha elections.

Similarly, their candidate for East Tripura (ST reserved) seat, Rajendra Reang will file his nomination paper on March 28 after a gathering of Bloc parties at Ambassa.

While highlighting political activities of the Tripura unit of INDIA bloc, Chaudhury said that day by day more and more democratic and secular forces are joining the INDIA to strengthen its fight against the dictatorship rule of BJP.

Chaudhury through his clarion calls to the people of Tripura to oust the BJP government from centre has also urged the media to protect the democracy of the country through their impartial role.

He said that the Tripura chapter of the INDIA bloc strongly condemned the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and confiscation of bank accounts of Congress by the Modi government. He said that BJP across the country has now lost their moral support from the public and in desperation, they are taking one after one anti-democratic steps and harassing opposition parties over fear of a poll debacle.

Senior Congress leader and MLA Sudip Roy Barman terming the BJP-led NDA as a “fascist force”, urged the voters to apply their mind and vote “judiciously” in favour of the INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections against the ruling BJP.

“Despite having differences on ideological grounds, we come together to save the Constitution, democracy, secularism and federal nature of the country besides for the sake of the overall interest of the people,” Roy Barma, a former minister, told the media.

Sudip highlighting the 10 years rule of BJP government led by Narendra Modi claimed that despite many pre-poll assurance before general elections of the country in 2014, BJP government is last ten years not fulfilled any commitments, but they made life of common people miserable.

Asserting that the country is seeking a change, Sudip said the party’s Lok Sabha election manifesto would focus on ensuring justice to people based on five “Nyay pillars” and claimed the BJP’s ‘guarantees’ would meet the same fate as the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004.

He derided BJP’s “guarantees” as “jumlas” (rhetoric) and “a bunch of lies”. The party is fighting the elections on the issue of ‘five nyay’ (justices) — ‘Bhagidari Nyay’, ‘Kisan Nyay’, ‘Nari Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Yuva Nyay’ — giving 25 guarantees, five under each category, that have been announced by the Congress president and Rahul Gandhi.

Roy Barman said that since inception Modi government by using all government agencies and “misuse” of agencies including, ED, CBI, Income Tax are only continuously destabilizing the opposition parties, disturbing state governments and making BJP led government through horse-trading. He said that the people of the country and Tripura had seen enough poll gimmicks of BJP and this time they are ready to give BJP a befitting reply for its betrayal politics.

Sudip also criticized the leader of Tipra-Motha for the betrayal politics of tribal population of the state and alleged their leaders after so called slogans, finally fielded his elder sister in the poll fray for their personal gain. “Since inception, Tipra-Motha is playing with sentiments of tribals, but now the people of Tripura understand their betrayal and beneficial politics,” said Sudip and claimed people of the state are now ready to give them a befitting reply along with their alliance partner BJP in the Lok Sabha elections.

It may be recalled here that eight parties of INDIA bloc in Tripura consist with main opposition CPI (M), Congress, all Left parties including CPI (ML), Gana Mancha and a tribal based state political party and the Tripura Peoples Party (TPP).