AGARTALA, Dec 11 - BJP Mohila Morcha president Vijaya Rahatkar on Monday expressed serious concern over the high rate of crime and low conviction rate in the Marxist-ruled State of Tripura.
In the past ten months, altogether 786 cases have been registered with the police in a small State like Tripura, which is itself an alarming trend, she told the media in the party headquarters here.
�Although there has been an upward trend in crime, the State has topped table of low conviction rate (24 per cent) among the Northeastern States�, she said quoting the recently released data of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB).
While Mizoram has the highest conviction rate with 88 per cent, Meghalaya and Manipur finished second and third respectively. Even Nagaland and Sikkim were ahead of Tripura with 42 and 36 per cent.
Scoffing at the Left Front Government, Rahatkar alleged the Manik Sarkar-led Government has failed to deliver when it comes to welfare of women. �There is total lawlessness and the State lacks an arrangement to deliver justice to the women�, she said.
�I wonder how no case of domestic violence or immoral trafficking is being registered with the police during the past 10 months. It seems, cops are under pressure to suppress figures of crimes against woman�, she said. Rahatkar, who is on a three-day �niwas� to the poll- bound State, said the National Commission for Women (NCW) has already asked the State Government to act as per the law to protect the rights of citizens especially women.
She further said the Mohila Morcha will play a key role in unseating the Left Front Government in the coming Assembly elections as BJP�s women brigade has been focusing on expansion of the organisation.
Promising that BJP�s Mohila Morcha will surely raise these issues in the upcoming Lok Sabha session, she claimed it was the Vajpayee-led government that had pushed the Women Reservation Bill but it could not be passed due to strong opposition from Congress and other parties.
