The former Chief Minister of Tripura and the nominated Lok Sabha candidate for West Tripura constituency Biplab Kumar Deb on Sunday held the CPI-M responsible for the people’s suffering during the last 35 years of its rule in Tripura.

Addressing in a joining ceremony at Barjala on Sunday the former Chief Minister of Tripura and the nominated Lok Sabha candidate for West Tripura constituency Biplab Kumar Deb, said, “People of the state were forced to join the communist movement to tag them as communist and not for their welfare.”

In the joining ceremony 817 voters from 194 families from various parties joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State President Rajib Bhattacharjee, former Chief Minister of Tripura and the nominated Lok Sabha candidate for West Tripura constituency Biplab Kumar Deb and others. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State President Rajib Bhattacharjee, former Chief Minister of Tripura and the nominated Lok Sabha candidate for West Tripura constituency Biplab Kumar Deb handed over the party flags to them in the joining ceremony.

“The Communist party has failed to empower women rather the women were forced to join communist rallies during the last 35 years of their rule in Tripura,” Deb said, adding that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP government at the Centre worked and brought a new dimension to women empowerment across the country.

He said, “There has been sharp increase of women run Self Help Groups in Tripura which exemplified that the women in Tripura are becoming self-reliant.”

Deb labelled communist party as the instigator of crime against women. He said, “Foreign forces like communist party has brought the tradition of crime against women, which is not present in the Indian culture.”