Tripura Legislator received show-cause notice by Congress

Agartala, May 20: The senior BJP leader, including party president Amit Shah, made a statement to the Congress over the anti-party activities in the senior legislator Ratanlal Nath. On Friday night, Ratanlal Nath taken a show-cause notice and asked to respond within three days, "Tripura State Congress President Birjit Sinha said. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party president Biplapur Kumar Dev and all BJP president in Agartala should leave the Amit Shah separately, giving Nath Show-notice to anti-party activities.

"Nath during a debate on demonetisationin the state assembly talked in faour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has also not attended any party (Congress) programme during the past two years," said Sinha, a sitting Congress MLA and former minister. Nath, when contacted, told IANS: "I have received the show-cause notice of the state Congress President. I would not make any comment on this issue at the moment." The 71-year-old Nath, who was elected to the state assembly five times since 1993, was also the opposition leader for many years.

In the last assembly elections in 2013, Congress won 1- seats in the 60-member state assembly. The six Congress MLAs, led by Sudip Roy Barman, resigned from the party last and have joined the Trinamool Congress in protest against the Congress' electoral alliance with the Left parties in the West Bengal assembly elections. Another Congress legislator, Jitendra Sarkar, resigned from the Tripura assembly and rejoined the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) reducing the Congress' strength in the state assembly to three. With these political developments, the Congress strength in the Tripura assembly has gone down from 10 to three - the lowest ever - in the house. The Left Front, led by CPI-M, has 51 members in the last year's election. CPI-M only 50.