Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb again landed in
a controversy after a video that gone viral on social media where he is seen to
asked civil service officials and executives to work for people without worrying
about contempt of court.
The video has gone viral after Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee tweeted it saying Biplab Deb is a "disgrace to the entire nation".
CM Deb is seen saying, "I want to tell you, don't do these with me…(officials) say, 'sir, there will be problems with the system'. What problems will happen? (they say), 'sir, we can't take risk, there will be contempt of court'….Who has gone to jail in Tripura for contempt of court? I am here; if you go, I shall go before you….It's not that easy to take you to jail. In order to take to jail, police is needed. The Chief Minister runs the police. They can't take to jail picking someone up just like that. Police will say they haven't found anyone. What will they do?.."
The CM also criticized officials for reiterating about contempt of court and said, "…this contempt of court is said as if a tiger sitting. I am the tiger. Power is with the main person running the government. That means all power is with the people. We are a by-the-people government, not by-the-court government. Today often we see contempt of court, contempt of court. Has contempt been committed? Former Chief Secretary told he would fall under contempt of court and would go to jail, that he would die. Arey, let him die. We bid him adieu".
The Chief Minister was addressing the 26th biennial conference of the Tripura Civil Service Officers' Association at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan here on Saturday.
In his tweet, where he tagged a video clip of the CM's speech, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee wrote, "@BjpBiplab is a DISGRACE to the entire nation! He shamelessly mocks Democracy, MOCKS the Hon'ble JUDICIARY and seemingly gets away with it! Will the SUPREME COURT take cognizance of his comments that reflect such grave disrespect?"
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