Opposition disrupts Tripura assembly
September 5th, 2011 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANSAgartala, Sep 5 (IANS) The Tripura assembly witnessed pandemonium Monday with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into the mysterious death of a youth and the police baton charge on Congress protesters in July.
Congress and Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) legislators led by opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath have been vociferously demanding a judicial probe by a sitting high court judge into the July incidents and a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the gunning down of 21-year-old Papai Saha.
Saha was shot dead by an “unidentified police personnel” while 111 people, including 28 policemen and 11 journalists, were injured in Agartala on July 10 and 11 in a series of clashes between the police and Congress workers protesting over the government’s alleged “discriminatory policies” towards the medical students.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who also holds the home portfolio, told the agitated members that the report of the magisterial inquiry into the July 10 and 11 incidents was being examined while the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) has been probing the incidents.
“We have no faith on the Left Front government, its administration and CID inquiry. We want a judicial and CBI inquiries,” Nath and other party colleagues told the house.
The Congress and INPT legislators disrupted the proceedings on the first day of the monsoon session of the Tripura assembly Friday, forcing Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath to adjourn the house three times.
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