By Political Correspondent | Tripura 24.in
AGARTALA | May 28, 2026
AGARTALA: Igniting a fresh wave of political confrontation in the state capital, the CPI(M) West Tripura District Committee organized a massive street-side demonstration in Agartala today. The standard agitation was launched to strongly condemn the recent raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the residential premises of CPI(M) Politburo Member and former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
The street rally was led by former Tripura Chief Minister and veteran Left leader Manik Sarkar, alongside several central committee members, front organization secretaries, and hundreds of red-flag-wielding party activists who marched through the primary commercial sectors of the city, shouting slogans against central enforcement agencies.
A Coordinated Counter-Attack Against Central Agencies
The agitation in Agartala was part of a nation-wide protest blueprint rolled out by the Left Front to challenge what they term an aggressive, premeditated “political witch-hunt” engineered by the ruling BJP-led central government using statutory investigative bodies.
Key Structural Demands Raised During the Protest:
- End Subversion of Federalism: The party demanded an immediate halt to the systematic weaponization of central bodies like the ED, CBI, and Income Tax Department to harass, intimidate, and weaken opposition leaders.
- Condemning the Timing of Raids: Left leaders pointed out that the aggressive multi-city search sweep across Kerala was intentionally fast-tracked to manufacture political leverage following recent democratic transitions.
- Solidarity with Left Leadership: Reaffirming absolute structural backing for Pinarayi Vijayan and his family against the long-running CMRL-Exalogic corporate pay-off case, which the party maintains is completely fabricated.
“The Central Government is Terrified of Alternative Ideologies”: Manik Sarkar
Addressing a dense gathering of party workers at a centralized street corner meet, former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar launched a blistering attack against the central administration’s governance framework.
”The deployment of the Enforcement Directorate to raid the permanent and rented houses of Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan is a textbook example of political vendetta and deep democratic intolerance. The ruling dispensation at the Centre has weaponized financial agencies to function as its extended political wings. Whenever an opposition voice grows powerful, or a regional alternative gains public traction, these central teams are dispatched with pre-written scripts.
Look at the pattern across the country—from Delhi and Jharkhand to Kerala. They want to create a culture of fear. But we want to remind them that the CPI(M) is a party forged through intense mass movements and unparalleled sacrifices. Pinarayi Vijayan or our party cadres cannot be broken or cowed down by these fraudulent, high-handed maneuvers. The people of India are watching this desperate subversion of our federal structure, and they will give a fitting democratic reply,” former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar stated to the media during the rally.
The day-long street protest concluded with a mass public pledge outside the party headquarters, where the West Tripura leadership announced plans to hold a series of localized, booth-level awareness conventions across rural subdivisions over the weekend to brief ordinary citizens on the “misuse of constitutional machinery.”
