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| Headlines Vol. 2 Issue7-8 | June 22- July 6 , 1999 |
Tripura CPI (M)'s apprehension about outside forces' activities The ruling CPI (M) has expressed apprehensions about foreign agencies' possible stepped up activities along the Indo-Bangla border with Tripura following the Kargil development. In separate letters to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Samar Chowdhury and Bajuban Reang of the dissolved Lok Sabha and the party's Rajya Sabha member Khagen Das said Tripura, a border State surrounded by Bangladesh, might be targetted by foreign agencies to create trouble and indulge in sabotage activities. The Centre is also well aware that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and other foreign agencies are very active in Tripura, they told the Prime Minister. It is therefore felt that the situation in Tripura is sensitive and additional forces are necessary to strengthen the hands of the State Government in tackling insurgency and peaceful conducting of the panchayat and Lok Sabha elections, the letters said. They said that the State Government has assessed an immediate requirement of 38 companies of additional forces. “You are also aware that 22 police station areas have been brought under the Disturbed Areas Act to combat militancy.” The letters also pointed out the Centre's decision to withdraw two battalions of CRPF and the lone battalion of Army from Tripura, which had been deployed mostly in extremists-prone and very sensitive areas. The Left Front has urged the Prime Minister to immediately stop the withdrawal process of forces. |
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