Tripura: Key accused arrested after TMP workers’ attack on BJP functionaries

Following CM Manik Saha’s directive, police detain key suspect linked to TMP’s attack on BJP workers during PM Modi’s radio programme.
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AGARTALA: On Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha’s direction, the main accused was arrested hours after Tipra Motha Party (TMP) workers attacked BJP functionaries during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme on Sunday, police said on Monday. 

Khowai District Superintendent of Police Ranaditya Das said that so far, the main accused -- Rintu Debbarma – has been arrested and an intensive search was on to nab the other attackers named in the FIR.

“There were 30 people named in the FIR. Several police teams are conducting a search operation to nab all the accused named in the FIR,” the district police chief told IANS on Monday morning.

Large contingents of security personnel led by senior police officials are camping in the Asharambari Assembly constituency in Khowai district to prevent any escalation of tensions.

The TMP headed by former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma is a junior partner of the ruling BJP and it has two ministers in the Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Saha.

The Chief Minister, who holds the Home portfolio, after visiting three of the nine injured BJP functionaries at the government-run Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital here on Sunday night, had said that the police have been directed to take appropriate actions against the attackers. (IANS)

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