Tripurainfoway.com publisher Saumen Sarkar has alleged that the state’s BJP government has unleashed a campaign of intimidation to gag his media outlet.
The website, started five years ago by the US-based techie Saumen Sarkar, has been at the forefront of exposing corruption and nepotism both during the Left Front government and now during the BJP-led coalition government in Tripura.
“It had become practically impossible for journalists in Tripura to expose wrongdoing because they are harassed and meted out life threats. They cannot take such threats lightly after a journalist was killed by police in broad daylight sometime ago,” Saumen Sarkar told Northeast Now.