Addressing a commemorative meeting organised in memory of the CPI-M's General Secretary (L) Sitaram Yechury in southern Tripura’s Udaipur, state’s party secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said that before March 2018 the party (CPI-M) had over 98,000 members, but this number has now reduced to little over 37,000.

Tripura CPIM state Committee secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Sunday came down heavily on BJP and stated that the party is afraid to face the people in view of the upcoming Panchayat elections as they have lost their ground

CPM secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said that a sanghati mela (mela of unity) has been held every year since 1993 in the mosque, where people from all sections participate, and it also continued even after the BJP came to power. But some organisations, which he claimed to be backed by the ruling party, have claimed the structure as Jagannath temple.