CM Manik Sarkar earlier during an election campaign has accused Mizoram Chief Minister Lalthanhawala and former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi of encouraging insurgency in the state to evict left front government from the power during 1988 elections. Sarkar also had brought a serious allegation against Assam Rifles brigadier Panwar.

Coming down heavily on the statement of Sarkar Congress leader Ashish Shaha recently claimed, “along with his age Sarkar has been losing his mind and has brought his standard down by making baseless statements in the election campaign.”

Adding to that Saha alleged, “Sarkar is trying to divert the mind of common mass of the state to save his so called clean image by making negative outreach to the people in wake of the ADC election.” Citing an example to his allegation against Sarkar, Ashish Saha said that 15 years had passed by, but Sarkar had not yet tabled the Yousuf Commission report at the assembly over Bimal Sinhha murder case.

Saha alleged that when Sarkar was a minister of Home and Law department here at the state, the state govt. has tried its level best to withdraw the cases against NLFT insurgents and killer but failed, and this proves, “Sarkar is an ally to the insurgents and the murderer,” said Shaha.