The last day of filing nomination papers for three-tier Panchayat  elections has marred with sporadic violence in many parts of the state as on the last days, ruling BJP has filled maximum number of nomination papers an simultaneously, opposition Congress and CPI(M) has also filed their nomination papers.

Opposition CPI(M)  and Congress alleged that  violence and attacks on them continued on the last day of filing nomination, even senior Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman was also attacked during indiscriminate stone pelting in front of Tepania block.

Reports said that when a big rally CPI(M) with their Gram Panchayat election candidates moving towards Dukli block office in West Tripura district on Thursday morning, a large number of people allegedly owing allegiance with ruling party started stone pelting targeting the rally in front of large number of police and security forces.

Later, security forces escorted the rally and somehow, CPI(M) candidates managed to file their nomination papers before the BDO of Dukli Block.

After the Dukli Block incident, a large number of CPI(M) supporters including their leaders blockade the main road at Paradise Chowmuhani area of Agartala near IGB Hospital for 20 minutes in protest of violent attacks on their party candidates, their proposers and threatening them to withdraw their nomination papers.

While, leader of opposition (LoP) Jitendra Chaudhury addressing a press conference on Thursday afternoon said that on the last day, they totally failed to file nomination papers in Boxanagar and Nalchar block due to large –scale of violence and obstruction by ruling party supporters.

Senior Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman after filing nomination papers for his party candidates at Kakrabon block peacefully with support of BJP leaders and supporters, when he rushed to Tepania block and moved towards the block office, a large group of miscreants started stone pelting targeting the Congress rally.

As a result, Sudip Roy Barman and a few other Congress supporters sustained injuries.

In the evening, Congress workers of Sadar district Congress committee gheraoed the resident of Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha and staged demonstration to show their protest against continuous violence against opposition across the Tripura. Later, police ease the situation and removed all agitators from the spot.

Congress on Tuesday accused the ruling BJP dispensation in Tripura of unleashing targeted violence and attack on its party workers and stressed how they are subjected to unimaginable atrocities, especially during elections.

Pradesh Congress president Ashish Kumar Saha  claimed that the incidents of violence and oppression have increased after the announcement of Panchayat elections in the state. He claimed that hundreds of its workers were brutally beaten and their properties vandalised at the hands of the ruling regime and this exposed the falling norms of democracy in the BJP-ruled state.