Congress has demanded withdrawal of security of former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb.

Agartala: Thousands of people evicted, frightened and forced to abandon their properties due to the decades-long insurgency in Tripura on Thursday threatened to launch an indefinite agitation if their demands were not met. will

“We, 6,500 families of West Tripura and Sepahijala districts have been fighting for our rights for the past 22 years. The parties in power have changed but the scale of indifference towards us has remained the same,” said Sajal Poder, leader of the Sepahijala and West Tripura Homeless Development Coordination Committee. It remained the same.
Congress leader and the party’s lone MLA Sudeep Roy Burman in a letter to Director General of Police (DGP) Amitabh Ranjan on Monday demanded withdrawal of DEB’s “Z Plus” category security cover.

He said that in the year 2017, the then BJP state president Biplab Kumar Deb had orchestrated a so-called attack on him to get security cover from the Union Home Ministry which gave him only “Y” category. was given security cover.

“But ever since Deb was removed as Chief Minister, he has been claiming his entitlement to ‘Z Plus’ security to get the tightest possible security, which has led him to keep personal security officers with him. Permits to keep.Their visits are within the state and outside the state.
Roy Burman said that the number of official vehicles with security is being misused regularly which is costing the government heavily, and public money is being wasted on DEB’s false security claims.

Alleging “improper perks to Deb” after she resigned as chief minister, the Congress lawmaker said it was a “misuse of public money and administrative scope”.

Roy Burman, who was the Minister of Health and Information Technology in the Deb government but was sacked in May 2019 after differences with Deb, said that “the former chief minister is getting various government facilities illegally”.