Bulldozer policy under attack in Northeast

GUWAHATI/AGARTALA: Besides other parts of the country, the BJP's bulldozer politics has also drawn severe criticism both from the political spectrum and the courts in the Northeastern States, especially in Assam and Tripura.

Before Assam's BJP led Government's eviction drive, the saffron party led Tripura Government, after coming to power in March, 2018, bulldozed a large number of Opposition party offices across Tripura.

In Tripura, after the BJP government wrested power from the Left parties defeating the CPI-M led Left Front, it bulldozed 185 CPI-M party and Left trade union offices across the state, alleging that all these party offices were set up on government land.

The BJP government had also demolished eight Congress party offices in different districts.

CPI-M central committee member Jitendra Chaudhury said that the BJP governments across the country tried to enforce one-party rule.

"The BJP not only bulldozed the physical structures of the Opposition parties, they also bulldozing the society, mindset of the people, communal harmony and the democratic structures of the country. They are not maintaining the demarcation between the party and the government," Chaudhury said.

Supporting the BJP government's stand and action, the party's Rajya Sabha member and newly-elected CM Manik Saha said that the government has been doing its work as per the law.

"If any party or individual occupying the government lands and properties, these should be vacated by the law enforcing agencies. A few of our party offices were also removed in Tripura," Saha, who is also the president of the BJP Tripura unit, said. (IANS)

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