Reacting sharp over former Chief minister Manik Sarkar's allegation of food and job crisis in Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party state president also the chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday challenged Mr. Sarkar to bring in his report card of 25 years rule and compete it with the two and half months report card of the BJP-IPFT government here.
The Chief Minister referring to the illegal recruitment of 10, 323 teachers under the then Left front government claimed that for the first time in Tripura the BJP government has taken up transparency in the governance.
When the opposition CPI-M has been blaming the ruling BJP of job crisis and fund crunch in centrally sponsored MGNREGA scheme, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday reacted upon this and clarified that just as the Left front government has failed to submit the Action taken report as was asked by the centre, the government denied of flooring the pending Rs. 130 crore which is now being received as the BJP government has tabled the action taken report against 7 who were suspended from their service due to their involvement in massive corruption.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb after announcing Rs. 5 lakhs for the Sreejit family at Kerala Kochi who lost life allegedly due to custodial death compared the former chief minister of Tripura Manik sarkar with the Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and alleged that Manik Sarkar has never visited to rape or other victims or family members of his constituency like the way Kerala chief minister has acted upon by not visiting Sreejit family.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb after returning from his election campaign at Kerala informed that the Tripura JICA project to soon receive Rs. 1000 crore to revive its project work in the state. While saying this in a press conference at the party head quarter on Saturday evening,
Mr. Deb said that his government is focused on creating assets along with generating employment opportunities for the youth. It is worthy to mention here that workers of the JICA project referring to the shutdown of JICA project in Tripura has been demanding to get back to their work and resume the project.
The Bharatiya Janata Party State president Biplab Kumar Deb also the chief minister of the state blamed the former chief minister Manik Sarkar for taking a visit to the bulldozing of illegal structures at Agartala Motor stand in the recent past. Saying that he never expected Sarkar visiting the sites, Mr. Dev gave a clarion call that his government shall never entertain illegal structures of any party offices in this state.
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