Agartala: Jan 28: BJP is going to enter the 23rd assembly elections in alliance with IPFT. The same message was jointly given by the leaders of the two parties in the press conference this evening. The IPFT has agreed to contest five seats in the upcoming assembly elections. This is how the IPFT has poured water on the dream of Greater Tipraland through the Janjati unity of Tipra Matha Supremo Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman. Incidentally, in the 2018 assembly elections, the IPFT contested 9 seats and won 8 seats.
Chief Minister Professor Dr. Manik Saha said on the day that the BJP had formed an alliance with the IPFT in 2018 through a common minimum program and had won and formed the government. During the five years of the coalition government, the two parties have jointly worked for the development of the people. Therefore, in these five years, they did not raise their voice about the basic demand of IPFT for Tipraland. Hence, once again BJP will contest elections in alliance with IPFT.
He said that the IPFT will contest in five seats in the upcoming assembly elections. They have agreed to field candidates in Takarjala, Ramchandraghat, Asharambari, Kanchanpur and Jolaibari constituencies. In this regard, Yuva IPFT president Shukla Charan Noyatia said, “Many thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for selecting the former president of the party late NC Debvarma for the posthumous Padma Shri”. The IPFT has agreed to remain in alliance with the BJP on the directives of the party’s central committee and current president Prem Kumar Reang and general secretary Prashanta Debbarma for the assembly elections. Accordingly, the party will contest in five seats. He said that Jayanthi Debbarma, daughter of late NC Debbarma, will contest in Asharambari constituency. The list of candidates for the remaining four seats will be announced tomorrow, he added.
On this day, the state BJP president Rajiv Bhattacharjee made it clear that the BJP believes that the welfare of the people is the first priority for the development of the state. Therefore, people are seeking overall development of the state through development. He clearly said that BJP does not support Greater Tipraland or Tipraland. In this regard, Shukla Charan Nowatia’s statement said that the people’s problems in Tripura will be solved through the coalition government. Meanwhile, in a private discussion after the press conference today, IPFT general secretary MLA Prashanta Debbarma said that Tipra Matha has hijacked our slogans. It is true that the united struggle was discussed with them. But, morally the IPFT did not agree to join them in the fight. Therefore, I have decided to contest the election together with the alliance partner BJP.
