Congress leader files written complaint against Minister Tinku Roy at Kailashahar police station

In a major political development, a Congress leader on Tuesday afternoon filed a written complaint at Kailashahar police station against Tripura Minister and Chandipur MLA Tinku Roy. Later in the evening, senior Congress leaders along with legal representatives addressed a press conference at the Kailashahar District Congress office, detailing the allegations.

Earlier in the day, a delegation led by Kailashahar MLA Birajit Sinha, Unakoti District Congress president Md. Badruzzaman, senior Congress leader and Tripura High Court lawyer Nar Singha Das, Chandrasekhar Sinha, Rudrendu Bhattacharjee and others submitted the complaint to Officer-in-Charge (OC) Tapas Malakar. After receiving the acknowledgement from the police station, the leaders briefed the media.

Addressing the press, advocate and Congress leader Nar Singha Das stated that the complaint accuses Minister Tinku Roy of submitting fake educational certificates in affidavits during assembly elections. According to the complaint, Minister Roy declared in his nominations for both the 2018 Kadamtala constituency (as BJP candidate) and the 2023 Chandipur constituency polls that he had passed Class XII in 2004 from a board in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

However, the board allegedly does not exist, and the certificates are claimed to be forged.

The complaint further mentions that in a separate case investigated by the CBI, the same board was earlier identified as fake. The Congress also alleged that although Tinku Roy stated in his nomination affidavit that he had no criminal cases against him, a criminal case is registered against him at West Agartala police station, details of which were submitted to the police along with the complaint.

Nar Singha Das described the alleged concealment of information and use of forged certificates as a “serious and punishable offence.”

Chandrasekhar Sinha, who lodged the complaint, is known in Kailashahar as a close associate of MLA Birajit Sinha. Political observers believe the complaint was filed at the MLA’s instruction. The development has significantly intensified the political atmosphere in Kailashahar.

Last month, MLA Birajit Sinha had claimed at a press conference that the ‘Chandipur Nagarik Forum’ would file a case against Minister Tinku Roy.

The  BJP Unakoti District president Bimal Kar dismissed the forum’s existence as “false and baseless” and challenged Sinha to file a case himself if he had the courage. Kar also accused the MLA of spreading misinformation out of frustration over the development works undertaken under Minister Roy’s leadership in the Kailashahar subdivision.

Interestingly, instead of filing the complaint himself, MLA Sinha has now had his close aide Chandrasekhar Sinha submit the written complaint, raising questions and speculation about political strategy.

According to police sources, although the written complaint was submitted on Tuesday afternoon, it had not been officially registered as of Tuesday evening.