Post-poll violence: Eight member Parliamentary team to visit Tripura on Friday to assess incidents

With post poll violence gripping Tripura an eight member parliamentary team would visit on Friday to assess the incidents of violence.

Leaders of Congress and the CPI-M said that the parliamentary team, comprising five MPs of Lok Sabha and three MPs of Rajya Sabha, dividing three groups, would visit violence hit villages and urban areas of three districts -- West Tripura, Sepahijala and Gomati.

The members of the parliamentary team include, P.R. Natarajan, Gaurav Gogoi, Ranjita Ranjan, A. A Rahim, Abdul Khalique, all Lok Sabha members and Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Vinay Viswam, Elaram Karim, all Rajya Sabha members.


Tripura CPI-M Secretary Jitendra Chowdhury said that after over a thousand of incidents of violence since March 2, thousands of people, including women and children, fled from their homes and took shelter in the jungle, different other places and outside the state.

"The police remained a silent spectator and refused to register FIRs. Some people were detained for a while but were let off later," Chowdhury told the media.

He said that at least three persons were killed while over 200 people were injured in the series of incidents of violence after the announcement of February 16 assembly polls on March 2.