Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev’s car vandalised in Tripura today. The incident harmed some employees of a private business that assists Ms. Dev’s party in electoral campaigns. Ms. Dev, who is in charge of the Trinamool Congress’s activities in Tripura, said the attack was carried out by the BJP.
When the incident occurred, Ms. Dev was with the staff of the Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC, a political public relations and consulting business. For the West Bengal assembly election earlier this year, political strategist Prashant Kishor and I-PAC worked with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party.
Visuals show a blue SUV with the Trinamool Congress’s election symbol and loudspeakers on the roof dented with multiple hits.
“Sushmita Dev along with 10 other party workers of TMC were brutally attacked by workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party at Amtali Bazar around 1:30 pm. The perpetrators vandalised vehicles, physically assaulted workers of the TMC, and outraged the modesty of female party workers,” the Trinamool Congress said in a complaint to the police.
“This was accompanied by theft of property including mobile phones belonging to supporters of the party. We request you to urgently enquire about the matter and bring the perpetrators to justice,” the Trinamool Congress said.
Ms. Dev is crisscrossing Tripura to launch her party’s campaign “Tripurar Jonno Trinamool” or “Trinamool for Tripura”.
“Our national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has declared that the TMC will be contesting all the upcoming elections in Tripura and likewise we are preparing to contest the civic body polls. Let the polls be declared then the party will formulate a final strategy,” she told reporters in state capital Agartala on Thursday.
“The campaign will continue for 10-12 days, covering all 60 assembly constituencies in 58 blocks of eight districts. We will go to the people, interact with them and listen to their problems. Three teams have been formed for the campaign,” she said.
