After Congress MLA served notice to vacate Govt quarters, party says ‘inhuman and politically motivated’ move

Roy Barman, a erstwhile minister, has been surviving astatine the MLA hostel adjacent Buddhamandir successful Agartala for the past 13 years. He was asked to vacate his existent quarters and taxable a requisition for a caller MLA hostel adjacent ILS Hospital.

“… determination is an urgent necessity to vacate those quarters occupied by you truthful that the Assembly Secretariat would proceed with indispensable improvement activities successful the involvement of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. I expect you to vacate the quarters instantly and manus implicit the keys to the Superintendent of the MLA’s Hostel and taxable a requisition for allotment of suits astatine the recently constructed MLA’s Hostel adjacent ILS Hospital, Agartala,” work the announcement issued by S K Majumder, Secretary, Tripura Legislative Assembly, connected September 20.

While speaking to reporters astatine Congress Bhawan, Saha said connected Sunday since Roy Barman precocious raised dependable against the alleged corruption of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) and the Tribal Welfare Minister Bikash Debbarma successful the precocious held Assembly session, it triggered the enactment against the MLA. “This is portion of a larger conspiracy. The authorities is harassing him (Roy Barman) to soundlessness him arsenic helium is revealing its corrupt practices. This is not the archetypal clip that the ruling enactment has tried repeatedly to unit him to vacate the quarters,” said Saha.

The Congress enactment precocious met Tripura Governor N Indrasena Reddy and highlighted the alleged corruption by the BJP ministers and leaders, including Tribal Welfare Minister Bikash Debbarma who was accused of having amassing properties successful the past 1 and a fractional years by taking vantage of his position.

On September 14, Tribal Affairs Minister Debbarma dismissed the charges arsenic baseless, and said helium would soon record a defamation suit against Roy Barman who had archetypal flagged the issue. The minister, however, admitted that immoderate different properties were registered successful his sanction but said they were purchased earlier and lone registered recently.

The enactment started successful the archetypal week of September erstwhile Roy Barman, who is besides a subordinate of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), flagged accusations of corruption successful the Rs 1,400 crore World Bank-funded task introduced for the socio-economic improvement of tribal communities. The task was designed to beryllium implemented done the Tribal Welfare Department.

During the treatment connected the contented successful the House, the Congress person obliquely alleged that Debbarma had amassed wealthiness for himself and his household members successful implicit a twelvemonth since helium started serving arsenic a curate successful the incumbent Manik Saha cabinet. The treatment saw heated exchanges, wherever the curate besides levelled allegations against the Congress leader, too.

Leader of Opposition successful the Tripura Assembly and CPIM MLA Jitendra Chaudhary aboriginal criticised the issue, saying the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party was trying to warrant the allegations levelled against it by leveraging it with akin counter-allegations and mounting a communicative that its actions were someway justifiable.