Agartala, Aug. 12: A dawn to dusk general strike called by the Congress here today to protest against the revised property tax announced by the Agartala Municipal Corporation was marked by stray incidents of violence.

Some party workers damaged a car at Post Office Square in which a gynaecologist and associate professor of Tripura Medical College, Dilip Das, and his daughter were travelling. Police detained one person for the incident. 

Later, at West Agartala police station, Das had an argument with PCC president Birajit Sinha who had gone there to get the man released. 

Apart from this, a municipal garbage truck was also attacked by Congress workers at Bardowali though the driver managed to escape unhurt. 

There were scuffles in front of the state secretariat between Congress workers, policemen and TSR personnel following which 65 members of the Congress were arrested, including Sinha and PCC vice-president Gopal Chandra Roy. 
All business establishments, shops and schools remained closed because of the strike. 

Sinha described the strike as a “total success and show of no-confidence of people in the Left government’s increase of property tax”. 

He said more such programmes would be undertaken. 

However, CPM office secretary Rakhal Mazumder said the strike had failed and it had exposed the real anti-people character of the Congress, its leaders and workers. he said Congress activists had deflated tyres of many rickshaws in several areas of the town. “This is downright inhumanity,” he added.