ranir bazar

Former BJP minister and currently lone Congress MLA, Sudip Roy Barman was seriously injured on Thursday allegedly in an attack by BJP supporters on National Highway 8 under ranir bazar police station area of eastern Agartala in front of police. He has been shifted to Agartala Government Medical College Hospital.

​Police said unknown miscreants hurled empty bottle on the unauthorised rally of Congress that hit Roybarman and damaged his vehicle.

The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee has threatened to “paralyse” the functioning of the state administration if those involved in the attack on the lone party MLA in the state, Sudip Roybarman, on Thursday are not taken into police custody immediately and if action is not initiated

A 32-year-old man was stabbed allegedly by BJP workers on Friday night, a day before the victim was set to join Congress in Agartala after rejecting the offer to join the ruling party.

After its best performance so far in the recently conducted Tripura civic polls, BJP now threatens to dislodge Congress as the main opposition in the state.