Chief Minister Manik Sarkar asked police chief Sanjay Sinha to take appropriate actions to book the criminals. 

Tripura Pragatishil Gramin Congress, a breakaway faction of the Congress, has also called a dawn-to-dusk state-wide strike Tuesday to protest the killing.  Information Minister Bhanu Lal Saha, Tripura Pradesh Congress chief Sudip Roy Burman, opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath and host of other leaders have also condemned the incident. The editor-cum-proprietor of ‘Dainik Ganadoot’, Sushil Chowdhury, who lives in the same building, told police that the assailants allegedly wanted to kill him but they killed the manager in a case of mistaken identity.

Police alerted all the police stations across Tripura, Border Security Force deployed along the India-Bangladesh borders and security forces posted at the airport to step up vigil so that the killers could not escape from the state.

The full report on the attack and the number of casualties is expected only by Tuesday morning due to the remoteness of the region which has no proper vehicular road and mobile telecommunication network. In the mean time primary suspect remains the newly formed United Achik Liberation Army (UALA) headed by one Norrok X Momin. The armed group is said to have served demand notes on coal mine owners throughout Nangalbibra region in the last month and amounts ranging from five lakhs to one crore has been demanded by the outfit.

Athuan Abonmai, secretary of the NPF, Manipur State said the action of the Congress led Manipur government on Monday for ‘demolishing’ 27 houses of the colony was inhuman.

“Giving only a day’s time to the Naga river colony to vacate including the three churches in the locality was not justifiable,” reasons Athuan Abonmai. He said demolition of houses for the sake of constructing a 5-star hotel, there are large number of people including the aged people and children who are facing untold miseries, stated the NPF leader. While strongly condemning the act of the government, Athuan Abonmai said the villagers of the were running from pillar to post pleading the state government to extend the time of vacating but to no avail.

“Where have all those ministers and MLAs gone who had pledged to stand for the rights of their voters during the election time?” asked Athuan Abonmai.

Previously the CID inquired the residence of the Director and recovered incriminating documents and also seized the director’s car. First, a scam  case hovered around CMJ University, and then their office was vandalized and now a certain twist to the case has risen. Further the court had already issued a non- bailable warrant against the absconding officials.

The expedition also made history when Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba (16) of Manipur becoming the youngest Indian ever to conquer the world’s highest peak. Adding more two NCC cadets from Manipur –Bidya Chand and Chirom Shangkar- also scaled the peak on Sunday thus making history of 12 climbers from North East India.

Retired Justice PC Phukan in its report had indicated Platoon Commander of Assam Police, Prem Singh Limbu for ordering excessive and unnecessary firing without a warning which resulted in the violent occurrence. Limbu was a Sub-Inspector from the Armed Branch of Assam Police and the Platoon Commander of No.26 Platoon of 4th Assam Police Battalion.

As per the Commission, “in obedience to his order, seventeen Assam Police Battalion personnel opened fire as they were duty bound to do so since they were trained to obey without question.” As per the orders of the Platoon Commander, the police personnel fired as many as 188 rounds for at least ten minutes. Firing at such scale and for such duration was excessive and unjustified in the prevailing circumstances, the Commission had said. After the widows of four deceased villagers filed a petition for sufficient compensation to them and also to direct Assam Government to punish the police personnel, the case is still pending with the High Court of Meghalaya. The lawyer dealing with the case informed that the matter was listed recently and the case will come up for inquiry shortly.

The Meghalaya Government had paid Rs 3 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased, Charles Lyngkhoi, Denis Nongsiej, Ekros Rani and Columbos Hoojon and this was acknowledged by the Commission.The Assam Government had also sanctioned the same ex-gratia amount of money to the relatives of the deceased, but the amount is yet to be paid. The Commission had recommended that Assam Government should also pay equal amount to the injured persons as done by its counterpart in Meghalaya.

According to sources  in Tripura police,  around 3:30 P.M on Sunday a group of miscreant came to the the Dainik  Ganadoot, a Bengali daily’s office in palace compound in the heart of Agartala , supposedly two unknown miscreant entered the office in search of the editor Sushil Chowdhury who was not present at the office . The miscreant had altercation with the staffs; they attacked three staff members with sharp cutting weapons and stabbed them to death and fled away.

The editor Sushil Chowdhury, was not present at the time incident tok place, might have been the main target of the attack.

The attacked has left the entire media fraternity in Tripura shell shocked. Police has mean while lauched a massive man hunt to nab the culprits.

Only this time the cold war is being played at the expense of the students of the state.

The glitches in the publication of the matriculation results has led to a lot of discontent amongst students and parents.Nearly 4 lakh student appeared conducted by SEBA( Secondary Education Board of Assam).

Taking que of this anomaly and a spontaneous stir led by AASU advisor Samujal bhattacharya , the chief Minister Tarun Gogoi fired a salvo without directly attacking his education minister.

The Chief Minister stated that new ideas within the education ministry was welcome but they needed to be more ‘serious’ in their overall functioning .

It may be indicated that Gogoi is venting his displeasure at another incident where dissident leader and Pawan Singh Ghatwar Loyalist Santiuse Kujur an executive member of the BTC name has been approved by Sonia Gandhi for the Rajya Sabha .