Tripura congress opens relief fund for post poll violence victims

AGARTALA: Tripura Congress president and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman has donated Rs 10 lakh to the relief fund of the party for helping those affected by the post-poll violence in the state.
He said that Congress has opened a cell at the state headquarters to received copies of FIRs which have been filed by the victims of violence in police stations across the state.He added that Congress would move a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking compensation for the families of each person affected by the violence.
"In this 21st century, nobody can contemplate this kind of barbarism, where fellow citizens are being attacked just because of political differences. The state has failed to protect the constitutional rights of the citizens. India has a multi-party democratic set up. But in West Bengal and Tripura, after every election, the supporters of the losing party have always faced violence and the government did not take any step," Barman said.
As many as three supporters of BJP were killed in the violence and close to 200 people were injured in the violence so far after election result was announced. During elections also more than 100 people were injured in the political violence but none of them are top leaders of any party and always common people have become victim, he added.
Hundreds of dwelling houses and shops were gutted in poll related violence and role of police was not at all satisfactory, Burman stated adding that the state government must take firm action against each of the incident without considering the political affiliations of the perpetrators and also the government should announce due compensation for the victims.
He urged the people to donate money to the relief fund of Congress for the victims of post poll violence. The vice president of congress state committee Pijush Biswas also donated rupees on lakh for this purpose and many others have donated that swell the corpus to Rs 15 lakh in two days.
"Besides, government compensation the congress will help to all the victims without considering their political identity," he added.