Congress shutdown in Tripura against killing of newspaper employees

Agartala: Normal life was paralysed in the municipal corporation area in Agartala today in response to a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by opposition Congress to protest the killing of three employees of Dainik Ganadoot, a local Bengali daily. Vehicles remained off the roads and markets, schools, colleges and educational institutions were closed.[caption id=“attachment_801579” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Against violence. PTI[/caption] Official sources said attendance in government offices, banks and financial institutions was also thin. Police said no untoward incident was reported from any part of the city. Motorcycle-borne miscreants attacked the newspaper office at the Palace Compound on Sunday and stabbed to death the office manager, a proof reader and a driver. Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath, belonging to the Congress, said that the killing proved that journalists and newspaper employees were not safe in the state. PTI