Summary:
Agartala, Nov 16 (PTI) All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader Susmita Dev on Tuesday said the Tripura government should invite a group of journalists on a fact finding mission to check whether communal incidents had taken place in the border state.
Her reaction came in response to claims made by Tripura Minister for Information and Culture (ICA), Sushanta Chowdhury that two women journalists - Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha - from HW News Network, who came to Tripura to report on recent communal incidents and were arrested, “actually came here as agents of a political party" and wanted to incite people against the state government.
“I do not know, who (which party) he had indicated.
If there is no communal tension in the state then they should invite a group of journalists to the state to see for themselves what is happening here.
“There was no religious tension in the state earlier and all this started only after the BJP came to power”, Dev, also a Rajya Sabha MP, said.
The TMC leader also alleged that no arrests were made in connection with the communal incidents “because they very well know that BJP people would be arrested”.