With the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) village committee elections anticipated to be held quickly, the opposition Congress get together on Saturday held a significant rally as part of its ‘Sanhati Padayatra’ to unfold peace, concord and tranquillity in Agartala and appealed individuals to hitch ‘mohabbat ka dukan’ as a substitute of politics of hatred.
The Sanhati Padayatra is part of a nationwide marketing campaign that began on October 31 to commemorate the demise anniversary of former Prime Minister Late Indira Gandhi and would proceed until her delivery anniversary on November 19.
Senior Congress leaders, together with state Congress president Ashish Kumar Saha, Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and MLA Sudip Roy Barman and others, joined the rally and claimed there was an increase in fundamentalist polarisation within the nation for the reason that ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) got here to energy.
“We now have come to unfold love versus hatred unfold by then. Ever since BJP got here to energy, divisive forces have been at work to deprave our inclusive social cloth. We intend to counter this with peace and unity,” he stated.
Invoking Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s message of beginning “mohabbat ka dukan” (outlet of affection) in a bazaar of “nafrat” (hatred), Roy Barman appealed to individuals to reject hatred and select love.
“Congress means peace, love, tranquillity, it stands for no bloodshed and divisive forces which attempt to divide individuals on communal, linguistic and cultural traces may be defeated solely via inclusion and love,” he stated.
The padayatra lined totally different streets of Agartala metropolis and tried to have interaction individuals within the Congress get together’s imaginative and prescient of ‘concord and unity’.
The polls to the 587 village committees within the TTAADC had been alleged to be held on March 7, 2021, however couldn’t be held because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In July 2022, the Tripura Excessive Courtroom issued an order “anticipating” the State Election Fee and state equipment to inform the dates of election on the earliest and full the complete technique of village committee elections, together with the declaration of outcomes inside the first week of November of the identical yr.
Nevertheless, the ADC village committee polls weren’t held and 5 months after the deadline expired, the tribal council’s ruling TIPRA Motha get together, which was then the first opposition within the state meeting and now a constituent of the ruling mix, knocked the doorways of the excessive court docket as soon as once more in April final yr.
Sources stated the village committee polls are prone to be held quickly, although no schedule has been introduced.
