Agartala, March 3 (TIWN) The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front in Tripura on Tuesday said that the prevailing situation in the BJP-ruled state is worse than the 1975 emergency period in India.

CPI-M Tripura state Secretary Gautam Das said that total lawlessness, thousands of attacks on women, opposition party leaders and workers and undemocratic governance has prevailed during the two-year-old BJP-led government rule in the state.  He said that soon after securing a majority in the Assembly polls on March 3, 2018, the BJP had launched attacks on the opposition parties and the common people and these atrocities still continued unabated.  "During the two-year rule of BJP government, 13 CPI-M party leaders and workers were murdered and 2,170 people including 203 women were physically tortured by the BJP members and their goons and none was arrested," Das, a CPI-M central committee member, told the media.  "Fifteen more people died of heart attack after witnessing the massive widespread attacks all over."  Das alleged that over 1,002 houses belonging to the opposition CPI-M and other Left parties members were attacked, damaged and burnt.