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  • Tripura Congress chief Pijush Kanti quits party citing ‘personal reasons’

    By PTI

    AGARTALA: Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) acting president Pijush Kanti Biswas on Saturday quit the party and announced his retirement from politics. The veteran leader said that personal reasons prompted him to tender his resignation.

    Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “With sincere gratitude I thank all Congress Leaders, supporters for your cooperation during my tenure as TPCC president (acting). Today I have resigned from the post of president and retired from politics as well. My sincere gratitude towards Hon’ble CP Smt. Sonia Gandhiji.”

    With sincere gratitude I thank all Congress Leaders, supporters for your cooperation during my tenure as TPCC President (acting). Today I have resigned from the post of President and retired from politics as well. My sincere gratitude towards Hon’ble CP Smt. Sonia Gandhiji.
    — Pijush Kanti Biswas (@sradvbiswas) August 21, 2021
    Biswas said that he has already forwarded his resignation letter to All India Congress Committee (AICC) supremo Sonia Gandhi and party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi. Talking to reporters, he said, “The reasons are not to be disclosed. I can only say that I resigned due to personal reasons. I have no plan of joining any other party.”

    Biswas, a senior advocate of the Tripura high court, was made Tripura Congress unit’s acting president in 2019. A former TPCC chief, on the condition of anonymity, however, said Biswas was asked to resign by the grand old party’s central leaders.

  • Congress alleges its Tripura chief attacked by BJP’s hoodlums; seeks probe

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday alleged that its Tripura PCC president Pijush Kanti Biswas and his supporters were attacked by the BJP’s hoodlums in Bishalgarh, and demanded a thorough time-bound probe into it.

    Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala claimed that Biswas was to attend an organisational meeting, when miscreants allegedly attacked him and vandalised his vehicle in front of the Congress office in Bishalgarh, Tripura.

    “The Congress condemns in strongest words the pre-meditated and heinous attack on Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pijush Kanti Biswas and his supporters by the BJP hoodlums and criminals,” he alleged in a statement.

    “The party demands a time-bound and thorough probe into the incident by a Director General Police-rank officer. We also demand that those responsible for this attack are arrested forthwith and charged for attempt to murder and other stringent offences,” Surjewala added.

    He claimed that sadly during the tenure of the present BJP-led government in Tripura there have been several instances of BJP cadres attacking opposition leaders and supporters.

    “The fact that this attack took place in the presence of police, wherein even their personnel were also thrashed by the goons, speaks volumes about the prevailing law and order situation in the state,” Surjewala alleged.

    “To avoid any such mishaps in the future, Shri Piyush Biswas should be provided with personal as well as peripheral security round the clock,” he added.

    Surjewala also said that the Congress party and workers are the last ones to be daunted by such cowardly acts of violence and it will continue to raise people’s cause with renewed vigour and zeal and “expose the misdeeds and corruption” rampant in the present dispensation.