CPI (M) Tripura secretary Gautam Das has said that the chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb was trying to divert attention from the failure of his government by seeking to draw peopleโ€™s mandate through a public meeting.

โ€œThe chief minister seeking the peopleโ€™s mandate is nothing more than a drama to divert attention from the failure of his government,โ€ said Das.

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โ€œWhile many people of Tripura are starving, the present government is engaged in a struggle for power,โ€ he said.

Deb had sought public opinion on whether he should continue as the chief minister of Tripura in a meeting to be organized on December 13 in Agaratala.

He sought public opinion in retaliation to the demand for a change in the state leadership by a few dissident BJP MLAs,

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These MLAs had shouted slogans, โ€œBiplab hatao, BJP bachaoโ€ during BJP state in-change, Vinod Sonkarโ€™s visit to the state recently.

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On the other hand, BJP chief JP Nadda intervened to solve the crisis within the Tripura BJP unit and asked Deb to continue as the chief minister.

BJP ally IPFT supremo and state revenue minister, NC Debbarma said, โ€œItโ€™s unbecoming of the chief minister to seek public opinion in this manner.โ€

โ€œAny dispute he with the legislators of his party should have been solved internally and he should not have dragged the state government into it,โ€ said Debbarma.

Tripura Pradesh Congress president Pijush Biswas said, โ€œThe chief minister along with his cabinet ministers should resign and fresh polls should be held  if he actually wanted to know the public opinion.โ€