A delegation of more than 15 TMC MPs will reach Delhi tonight, seeking an appointment with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the alleged police brutality in Tripura. The MPs will sit on a dharna from tomorrow morning in the national capital, news agency ANI reported.
"Brutal attacks on the TMC. Even members of media were clobbered, and arrests on trumped-up charges," TMC Derek O'Brien tweeted at Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking appointment for the TMC MPs.
Tripura police on Sunday had arrested actor-turned-TMC leader Sayani Ghosh on charges of attempt to murder after she allegedly disrupted a meeting of state Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb by shouting 'Khela Hobe' on Saturday night. The arrest and an alleged attack on TMC workers by unknown persons whom the Trinamool Congress believes to be BJP supporters happened barely 24 hours before the Mamata Banerjee-led party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is slated to reach Agartala to stand beside attacked party workers.
Police sources said Abhishek's plan to hold a rally in Agartala has been disallowed in view of "prevailing Covid norms."
Ghosh, the youth unit secretary of TMC West Bengal, was arrested after being called in for questioning in a police station in Agartala, a police official said.
A delegation of TMC MPs are flying out to Delhi on Sunday night to meet Home Minister Amit Shah to protest alleged police excesses in Tripura, party sources said.
The Trinamool Congress is locked in a charged political battle in trying to gain a foothold in the Northeasern state ahead of the 2023 assembly elections. As a prelude it plans to contest the civic polls to be held on November 25.
-Inputs from PTI
