Congress ensured rise of Left Front in Tripura: BJP’s Biplab Kumar Deb

AGARTALA: Former Tripura chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency, Biplab Kumar Deb, claimed that the Left Front would not have risen to power in Tripura without the support of the Congress.

Biplab Deb made these remarks while addressing a poll campaign in Nalchar, Sepahijala district of Tripura on Sunday (April 01).

Deb accused former chief minister and veteran Congress leader Samir Ranjan Barman, along with his son Sudip Roy Barman, an MLA and Tripura Congress leader, of “openly aligning” with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

He claimed that even the current Tripura Congress president, Ashish Kumar Saha, had inherited a “communist gene”.

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He expressed confidence that the people of Tripura would respond to this alliance in a democratic manner during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Sudip Roy Barman, who began his political career with the Congress before joining the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 2016 and later the BJP in 2017, served as the health minister in Deb's Tripura government.

However, he was removed from his position a year later due to alleged differences with Deb.

Barman subsequently returned to the Congress ahead of the 2023 Tripura assembly elections.