India, Oct. 21 -- Agartala/UNI: An assistant professor of Pharmacology in Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC) was put under suspension on Monday for making a comment regarding NRC and Citizenship amendment bill (CAB) on Facebook.

Sources said, Dr Kaushik Chakraborty's Facebook comments on NRC were believed to have hurt the sentiments of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who also holds the health portfolio.

Dr Chakraborty was one of the leading people in the medical fraternity in the state who had opposed the alleged misrule of the Left Front in Tripura and had reportedly played an important role before the last year's assembly election in favour of BJP.

In August last year, a controversy had cropped up over the chief minister's birthpl...