Agartala, July 14: Normal life has been affected in Tripura on Sunday after opposition CPI-M-led Left Front called for a 12-hour statewide shutdown in protest against the murder of a CPI-M candidate for the South Tripura Zilla Parishad in the August 8 three-tier Gram Panchayat elections.
Most of the shops were closed, and CRPF and police have been deployed in most of the areas.
The Congress has expressed its support.
Speaking to media persons, Tripura Left Front convener Narayan Kar alleged
that Badal Shil was critically injured in a deadly attack by ruling BJP-backed assailants on Friday at Rajnagar in the South Tripura district.
Kar said the CPI-M leader, after preliminary treatment in the local hospital, was shifted to the government-run Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday afternoon.
More than a dozen left party leaders and members were injured across the state in the BJP attacks after the panchayat election schedule was announced on July 10.
CPI-M Tripura state Secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said that the Left parties would not organise any picketing on Sunday in support of the state-wide shutdown and appealed to the people to spontaneously observe the dawn-to-dusk strike.
Congress Working Committee member and former Minister Sudip Roy Barman said that his party would support the Left Front-sponsored shutdown on Sunday.
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