Tripura violence – in which properties, shops belonging to the minority community were burnt down by the right-wing Hindutva forces – was a pre-planned conspiracy to polarize the local body elections due in the last week of this month alleged, the CPI(M) leader, Jitendra Chaudhury.Talking to National Herald over the phone, the former Member of Lok Sabha from Tripura (East) said that the “violence in the northern part of Tripura was seen as a reactionary move” by some. The RSS affiliate VHP, Hindu Jagran Samiti propagated it as a reaction to the action (attack on Hindus in Bangladesh) but “the reality is that it was all pre-planned”.“No communal violence can take place unless it is allowed to happen,” emphasised Chaudhury, highlighting, “The VHP took out a procession through areas which are known to be communally sensitive because they knew if they chose other areas, there will perhaps be no reaction,” said Chaudhary who won the Lok Sabha election in 2014 when the Modi wave was on its peak.
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