Tripura BJP leader airs video from hideout as vandals ransack house

Agartala: Tripura police have launched an investigation into the ransacking of the house of BJP minority front leader

Jalal

Mian on Wednesday night at Chhataria in Udaipur allegedly for hoisting the national flag on Republic Day defying the warning of a group of youths.Jalal Mian, on a live video call from an undisclosed location, sought the help of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb for survival during the attack carried out by a group allgedly led by BJP leaders Phani Bhusan Majumdar,

Shahajan Ali

and Pritam Sarkar. However, no arrests have been made.Jalal, a contractor and leader of the ruling party, alleged that local BJP leaders have been fighting with him after he installed a statue of former President and Missile Man of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, on his 90th birth anniversary last year at his house. They wanted him to dismantle the statue of Kalam, as the party didn’t like it but he did not agree, Jalal claimed.