Agartala,
Oct 3: The driver of a private vehicle hired by a Delhi based journalist
has remained been missing for past two-week triggered reaction among the
opposition political parties as well as among the villagers in Dukli area of
West Tripura. BJP state president Biplab Kumar Deb today lambasted the left
front government in Tripura for doing nothing for the family of the driver who
went on missing in mysterious condition from tribal district council
headquarter at Khumulwng a few hours later of the murder of TV journalist
Shantanu Bhowmik (28) in the evening on September 20 last, The 27-year old
driver Jiban Debnath went on missing when he was returning to Agartala from
trouble-torn Jampuijala with a Delhi based journalist cum psephologist Sajjan
Kumar. According to report, they halted at Khumulwng for a break in the
evening. Suddenly, a group of violent tribal youths appeared there and took the
driver to an undisclosed location but they did not touch the journalist and his
guide belongs to tribal community. Both of them were safely reached at Agartala
with security cover at night. Police was informed by Sajjan Kumar that they had
gone to Jampuijala to perform an assigned work - analysis on possible election
trend being a Psephologist attached with The New Indian Express. Neither police
could able to trace him out so far, nor the administration did anything for the
family. No minister or ruling party leader met the family yet and no minimum
support is extended to the family, he alleged. “I am shocked to see the plight
of the family who have been passing days without a square male since Jiban was
missing. Nobody from the administration met them or extends any help to his
wife and son. They are passing the days under crisis of food and miserable
condition,” Mr Deb told media. He had given some cash of few thousand rupees to
the family for immediate relief and demanded state government to provide immediate
support to the family and added, “The government has to ensure the whereabouts
of Jiban. The family has to know how he was kidnapped by the miscreants when
the entire area was under heavy security cover and in last two weeks what
police did for his rescue.” UNI
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