Complaint against BJP over foundation stone of Ram Mandir in Tripura
- Oct 23, 2018,
- Updated Oct 23, 2018, 1:43 AM IST
Agartala, October 22, 2018:
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in Tripura lodged a complaint on against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Sanatan Sena for laying the foundation stone for a Ram temple in a tribal area of South Tripura district.
The secretary of CPI-M South Tripura district committee, Tapas Datta said that a plaque was put up in the same place in 2017 by the party in the State in the memory of Mohini Tripura, who tried to stop jhum cultivation on forest land and was martyred in the 1967 movement against the then Congress Government.
Datta informed that the plaque was later uprooted by the Sanatan Sena, a right-wing organisation, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists.
On the other hand, the State BJP vice president Subal Bhowmik said CPI-M activists had forcibly occupied the land of a local person to build their memorial.