Agartala, April 12 -- Tripura CPIM MLA Jitendra Chaudhury on Friday wrote a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer, Puneet Agarwal to direct police to arrest culprits who allegedly assaulted a polling agent for INDIA Bloc during home voting.

Chaudhury in his letter said that the apprehension that CPIM representative expressed about the security of the Opposition Polling Agents in the all-party meeting held on 9th April, has unexpectedly come to be true even during the polling of the aged (85 and above years) voters in their respective houses.

"I am attaching herewith the copy of an FIR of one Satyabrata Chowdhury which will speak for itself. Chowdhury was beaten up while intending to perform as Polling Agent for INDIA Bloc candidate Ashi...