The opposition CPI(M) in a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) demanded round the clock checking at all checkpoints and proper monitoring of all chartered flights and helicopter arrivals in the Agartala airport.

CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury in a letter to the ECI on Wednesday said that disturbing reports are pouring in that nowadays operation of chartered flights and helicopters in MBB airport in Agartala has increased to an unusual scale.

Many political leaders mostly belonging to the ruling BJP are coming in these flights and helicopters. It is natural that they would come to an election-bound state., said Chaudhury and added that he  was informed that, some of them carry huge cash money with their flights and copters and those are being dispatched to various parts of the state after 9.00 at night when the check posts set down in various points of the state remain unmanned.

There may not be any dispute that this cash money would be used in illegal manner to bribe the voters, said Chaudhury and urged the Commission  to order checking of the chartered flights and helicopters used by any individual leaders at the airport itself and extend the working hour of the check posts in various points of the state for round the clock. All the cars, including the cars used by any political leaders of higher posts, must be checked up thoroughly before passing through the check posts.