Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) Motha Supremo and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Deb Barma urged the ruling BJP’s ally IPFT (Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura) to contest the forthcoming assembly election together for the all round development of the tribals.
In a FB message Pradyot said that TIPRA, IPFT and all other like minded parties can fight the upcoming assembly polls together in a common symbol for the greater cause of the tribals.
“Most political parties and their leaders are fighting the elections for the posts and power, we are fighting to develop and protect the indigenous tribals and their future,” Deb Barman said adding: “After elections, the leaders would go back to Delhi, but the backwardness and poverty stricken people of Tripura have to suffer. Assam, Mizoram and other northeastern states have been developed but Tripura remains backward.”
The IPFT since 2009 has been demanding to make the areas under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) as a full-fledged state while the TIPRA also since 2021 has been demanding for a separate tribal state – “Greater Tipraland”.
Deb Barman’s appeal to the IPFT to fight the elections together, comes after a week the IPFT President and senior cabinet minister Narendra Chandra Debbarma died after a prolonged illness.
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