AGARTALA, Jan 5 (TIWN): In various places, CPI-M activists were attacked after they joined rally in support of strike. CPI-M said, amid all violence attempts, strike will be successful and asked public to give a clear message to BJP about their perspective on the autocrat Govt. CPI-M released picture of an injured boy who was beaten after joining rally at Khowai. Addressing at CITU and other trade unions’ rally, Manik Sarkar on Saturday said, “BJP is very small in supports and numbers. They are now very afraid and thus trying its best create pressures on people so that they get afraid and with this sole agenda they are attacking the people all over India like this. They want to lock everyone in jail across India and trying to run over Steamrollers on people’s chest a but this is nothing but BJP’s self-imagined night mare".

"We have to tell them that it is a dream and a nightmare, never to be fulfilled when whole country is now on protest. They don’t have support from the maximum. To prove it we have to succeed 8th January’s strike and alone with the whole nation by the observing the strike in Tripura too, we have to give this clear message”, he said.

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Sarkar further asked Govt employees not to be afraid of ESMA like black laws. He said, humans are most powerful elements of earth. There is no power above when united people stand together.

“I would request all the sections of people to support our strike as an outrage of anger against the Govt. Again, this strike is not the ending but the pressure has to continue”, he added.

Manik Sarkar further said that by a successful strike BJP will get a clear message again.

“Everyone is with us. Except, the rulers, all the people including their organizations’ working classes are with us. Remaining few, who are none other than rulers are trying to run Steamroller on people’s chest

but let’s prove it as their nightmare”, he said.

As many as 10 central unions announced the strike in national open mass convention of workers, as per a joint statement issued by them. Ex-Minister Manik Dey said that beyond party barriers those who love the country must come to support the strike.

CITU, CPI-M’s trade union led by ex-MP Sankar Prasad Dutta and ex-Minister Manik Dey called a successful strike on that day sitting with other trade union leaders.

CITU informed that Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to be a part of CITU’s protest on 8th January.

As a part of the upcoming strike schedule, preparations and campaigning have been started in Tripura in full wave.