On July 16, Tripura’s lone Rajya Sabha MP Jharna Das Baidya had gone to meet Amit Shah in his office in Parliament to speak about the violence in the state in the run-up to Panchayat elections in her state. When she had gone to speak to him, Shah allegedly stated that she should quit CPI(M) as the Left was finished in the country. He again repeated himself to a shocked Baidya.