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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