AGARTALA: Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee TPCC ) held hunger demonstrations in three places of the state for four hours protesting against the atrocities on Dalit communities on Monday. They also highlighted 18 other demands related to development of the state which they wanted the government to fulfil.Hundreds of supporters joined the demonstration against the BJP government in the Centre and the state in Agartala, Udaipur and Kailashahar respectively, accusing BJP of continued violence on the opposition supporters for the past one-and-a-half months."Under the BJP rule in past four years, the country has witnessed religious and communal riots and the atrocities on the minorities and Dalits. On April 2, when the country observed strike, at least nine persons were killed in police firings and more than 300 people were injured which prompted Congress president Rahul Gandhi to launch a nation-wide protest," stated TPCC president Birjit Sinha Referring to the BJP-IPFT rule in Tripura, Sinha said political violence has been continuing since a day before the February 18 polls."The biggest issue in the villages and tribal areas under BJP-IPFT rule is the lack of jobs. The poor are not getting work and markets are running dry. The ministers are revolutionizing healthcare, drinking water, sanitation and education in the cities and towns but the life in the villages is in the pits due to the lack of ministers or administration," Sinha alleged.He claimed that Congress had given one month time to the new government but chief minister Deb is just focusing on the urban areas, forgetting the fact that the government was voted to power by the same villagers who they are sidelining now."We want the government to pay attention to the poor people's life and services. We don't want tall talks from the chief minister. The administration and police must work impartially to establish rule of law and address the commoners' issue," Sinha said adding that there is no qualitative change in governance except a few visible stunts.

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