Prashant Kishor’s team ‘under house arrest’ in Tripura, TMC slams BJP

A team of 23 members of Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee which is on a visit to Tripura was asked by the state's BJP government to stay put inside a private hotel, essentially putting them under house arrest.

The team, which was learnt to have visited several places across Tripura for a survey on assessing public experience of governance since the last 4-5 days, had been put up at a private hotel in Agartala.

A team of police and health officials visited the hotel Monday morning and questioned them about their purpose of visit and stay. It also enquired about their Covid-19 RT-PCR test reports and asked them to stay indoors till health authorities give the necessary clearance.

Reacting on the incident, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee tweeted that the I-PAC employees were kept under house arrest since the BJP is “rattled” by TMC’s victory in Bengal.