Trinamool mega rally disallowed by Tripura government

The first ever mega rally of Trinamool Congress which was slated to be addressed by party’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Agartala on September 15 has been disallowed by the state government.

TMC General Secretary Kunal Ghosh tweeted that the rally will be held on September 16. TMC has sought permission from the Tripura police.

The Sub-Divisional Police officer, Sadar, Anirban Das in a letter to TMC leader Subal Bhowmik said on Monday that during a review meeting it is found that permission for organising a mass rally throughout the Agartala city has already been granted to another political party on the relevant date and time.


“On further review, it is also found that the political party will organise the mass rally in the same route as prayed from your end. As such, from the perspective of security and law and order point of view, protest rally (of TMC) on September 15 from 1400 hrs is not permitted Regretted,” the letter said.

BJP’s Mahila Morcha (women wing) is also organising a rally on September 15.

Ghosh said, “To prevent the rally of Banerjee, BJP conspired in numerous ways. However, such conspiracies would not stop Abhishek Banerjee and Trinamool in Tripura.”

Last week, Tripura witnessed large scale political violence, Central forces were deployed in sensitive areas. There was arson and violence in newspaper offices and offices of opposition party CPIM. Office of CPIM was targeted in Agartala and other places.