AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Tripura CPI-M State Secretary Bijan Dhar on Sunday raised Tripura Chief Minister led ‘nail chopping off’ controversy and said, it’s an example of total "Intolerance". “From Mahabharata to Paan shop there were endless controversies which hit the national media, but his warning about chopping off nails of the critics is totally an example of rudeness and intolerance. This is not a democratic attitude of a state’s chief minister”. “We don’t know whom he targeted in that speech, but we condemn the statement of the Chief Minister”, Bijan Dhar told media.“In our times also endless criticism had taken place against CPI-M. From petrol crisis to many incidents, they push the public to shower anger upon us. But when they are in power now, they want to stop everybody’s voice”, Bijan Dhar said.

Tripura CM recently in a programme said, “Around 9 am, a vegetable seller brings bottle gourd to the market. However, it gets rotten by 9 am due to the repeated digging of nails by customers. So, Govt must be strict. It shouldn’t be like a bottle guard. If anybody touches my govt I will chop off the nail”.

Among the 6 hit controversies erupted by Tripura Chief Minister the latest was the 'paan shop' controversy now with the bottle guard story.

The first controversy which nationally made the Chief Minister popular had sparked, when he said, “Internet and satellites existed in Mahabharata-Era and via Internet Sanjay was giving live updates of Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dritarashtra”.

The second blow was CM’s claim about, Diana Hayden didn’t deserve the Miss-World award as she doesn’t look like an Indian woman and her style is unworthy to represent India. Indian women should be like Goddess Laxmi, Saraswati and Aishwarya Rai is still fine to title as Miss World. Not only this, CM also claimed there was no credit any Indian woman to get the Miss World or Miss Universe awards at all as such beauty-contests are fake and ramp walks are just for “shows”. The awardees names are selected before the competition.

Then he said in Civil Service day, Mechanical engineers should not go for Civil Service but Civil Engineers should go.

Finally, the 4th lead was when he asked state’s 8 lakhs youths to open paan-shop or breed cows for livelihood instead of running after politicians for jobs.

Then there was another controversy with his speech of Buddha Purnima, whereas at last he was in National media after he said, “My Govt is not a bottle gourd. I’llchop off nail if interfere in my govt”.