Clashes between BJP and Left supporters were reported across Tripura in India over the last 48 hours, after BJP-led alliance swept the Assembly elections in the state, unseating the two-decades-old CPM government of Manik Sarkar, reports NDTV.

CPM offices were attacked in state capital Agartala and elsewhere; a Lenin statue, situated in the middle of Belonia town in south Tripura, was razed by bulldozers.

Eyewitnesses claimed bulldozers, allegedly brought in by BJP workers, demolished the statue amid chants of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, according to reports.

Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, has spoken to the Governor and the police chief of Tripura and asked them to check violence till a new government is in place.

Three people have been arrested over the last 48 hours in Tripura, for what the police has described, as ‘post-poll’ violence. The police said on Monday that it had received four complaints of violence from various parts of the state since Sunday night.