AGARTALA, Aug 24 (TIWN): "I didn't plant the ganja plants in this state. The Communist 25 years have done this. They planned to destroy my Tripura with drugs and addictions and I am going to expose it at Delhi. I will conduct press conference at there", Biplab Deb said on Friday. CM was addressing in a govt programme conducted to felicitate students selected for outside colleges from SC and other minority sections at Rabindra Bhawan. "Not only to the people of Tripura, but I will tell the whole country and its 125 crore people about this. Under our Govt in 5 months 35,000 kilo of ganja has been seized by police", claimed the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister of Tripura followed by various controversies met another fresh controversy when he said Manik Sarkar himself was involved in the massive ganja production. However, CM said, no BJP leader will also be spared if found in unlawful activity.

However, by saying this whether CM has disclosed a central level party decision or not, it has raised question. 

 Recently after Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb during Haj Bhawan’s inauguration programme at Agartala said, “Manik Sarkar was playing role as Dhritarashtra in illegal smuggling and passed his 20 years of Chief Ministry by smuggling ganja and phensedyl to neighboring Bangladesh to destroy the Muslim youths at there”, opposition CPI-M has come with massive reactions.

On that time, CPI-M leader, Ex-Deputy Speaker Pabitra Kar said, “As the Chief Minister he should have basic knowledge that the border is guarded by BSF, which totally comes under the Central Govt and also the Narcotic issues are dealt by the Central Govt by agency like customs”.

“As Biplab Deb never stayed in Tripura and in childhood he left the state so he doesn’t know about the state at all. Tripura Govt each year burnt ganja plants, destroyed massive ganja nurturing, whereas under the preset govt only packets of ganja are seizing”, Pabitra Kar said.

Another CPI-M leader said, “What Biplab Deb said about Manik Sarkar it shows his downed mentality of him. People know who is Manik Sarkar”.