Agartala, Aug 8: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday alleged that ruling BJP members attacked at least seven TMC members in separate incidents in Tripura.

Several TMC leaders including party’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Chief Spokesman Kunal Ghosh made a series of tweets on these incidents and demanded arrest of the attackers.

“The goons of BJP Tripura have shown their true colours ! This barbaric attack on Trinamool workers reveals the ‘goonda raj’ in Tripura under BJP Biplab’s (Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb) govt.! Your threats and attacks only prove your inhumanity. Do what you can. Trinamool will not budge an inch !” Banerjee said in his tweet.

Some days ago, Banerjee was also allegedly attacked in Tripura. He was on a visit to Tripura to strengthen their party before the upcoming Assembly elections in Tripura.

Ghosh said that seven party leaders and workers including youth leaders Debangshu Bhattacharya, Sudip Raha and Jaya Dutta from West Bengal were injured when they were attacked by the BJP workers at Ambassa in Dhalai district.

He said that a TMC party office was totally damaged by the ruling party workers at Dharmanagar in North Tripura districts.

“Police without arresting the attackers, detained our several leaders and workers including Subal Bhowmik in Dharmanagar till late Saturday night. We would meet the state Governor (Satyadev Narayan Arya) soon to demand arrest of the BJP goons and members. The TMC will not tolerate the BJP government’s jungle raj,” the TMC leader said.

The opposition CPI-M has also condemned the attack on TMC allegedly by the BJP and said that the democracy has been totally throttled under the BJP governance since March 2018.

Strongly denying the accusation, the BJP claimed that the TMC is entirely a non-factor in Tripura and West Bengal’s ruling party (TMC) is trying to spread the “virus of political violence” in Tripura, where “outsiders” with the backing of CPI-M are fomenting trouble and lawlessness.