Insurgency / Tripura

NEW DELHI, April 4 – Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has opposed granting of any local administrative powers to Reang tribals, many of whom have migrated to the state from neighbouring Tripura, reports PTI.

“We are trying to find an amicable solution to the problem .... but are opposed to their demand for administrative powers,” Zoramthanga told PTI after a 20-minute meeting with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani here, on Thursday. The Reangs shifted out from Tripura about two years ago alleging harassment by other tribes.

Zoramthanga said the Centre also did not approve of granting any...

AGARTALA, March 31— Banned militant organisation NLFT is facing serious crisis following a fierce clash between two groups in Bangladesh camp. A surrendered militant Sunday divulged that at least 13 armed rebels had already left the camp and entered Amarendranagar area in South Tripura in an attempt to surrender before the security forces.

Malendra Reang, a hardcore NLFT militant who fled from Bangladesh camp separately with two more armed cadres, arrived at a Tripura State Rifles camp in Takarjala area in West District Saturday night. Acting on his tip-off the TSR personnel recovered on SLR...

AGARTALA, March 27 — Pakistan army were imparting commando training to Tripura-based insurgents in their country to launch subversive activities in Indian territory police said Wednesday quoting a surrendered militant, reports PTI.

Police said this information was available from a self-styled sergeant of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) who surrendered to the IG, CRPF, Sukhjinder Singh at Naraingarh in West Tripura district Wednesday. He had surrendered along with three other insurgents of the same outfit.

Hemanta Tripura, the self-styled sergeant who deposited an AK-46...

AGARTALA, March 16—The Left Front government in Tripura unveiled a two-pronged new policy to tackle militancy in the state, on Saturday, reports PTI. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said the policy would try to solve the problems leading to extremism and at the same time mount pressure on militants “refusing to listen to reason”.

The state government would implement a 25-point tribal development package to achieve a tangible improvement in the quality of life and economy in interior tribal areas, he said. He renewed his appeal to militants to shun the path of violence and join the mainstream for...

AGARTALA, Feb 18 — Under the shadow of insurgents violence, battlelines have been drawn between Tripura ruling Left Front and its arch rival Congress and Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) for the February 26 elections to the member assembly, reports PTI. The dominant Left Front partner CPI-M alone is contesting 55 seats and allies CPI-2. All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)-1 and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)-2.

Congress has fielded 42 candidates and it ally INPT in 18 constituencies reserved for tribals. Besides Left Front and Cong-INPT combine, BJP and Trinamool Congress and NCP...

Agartala, Feb. 17: In a move which might bring it into direct confrontation with militant outfits, the Hoda Okra, the supreme council of Hindu Jamatya tribesmen in Tripura, has called for peaceful elections on February 26. It has also urged the people to cast their ballots “fearlessly with due regard for parliamentary democracy”.

The statement, the first ever electoral guidelines issued by the Hoda, assumes significance in the wake of boycott calls by the banned All-Tripura Tiger Force, the NLFT’s dissident faction led by Nayanbasi Jamatya, as well as stepped-up violence by the rival faction...

AGARTALA, Feb 8 ? Forty-eight polling stations in West Tripura district have been identified as hyper sensitive. Superintendent of Police (West) Anurag speaking to reporters said, 119 other booths have been identified as sensitive and step have been taken to ensure free and fair polls in all these stations.

Overall there are 1155 polling stations in West Tripura district. The sensitive booths fall under Simna (10), Mandai (3), Mohanpur (2), Takarjala (4), Golaghati (1), Charilam (1), Ashrambari (4), Pramodenagar (3), Kalyanpur (2), Krishnapur (15) and Teliamura (3). Anurag said, as a...

Agartala, Feb. 3: A group of Borok National Council of Tripura militants last night abducted 16 non-tribals from Emrapasha area under Kumarghat police station of north Tripura district. Four of the hostages managed to escape from near the Bangladesh border.

Already, 37 persons have been killed in militancy-related violence this year in the run-up to the February 26 Assembly elections.

Police sources said members of jatra party (folk theatre group) were rehearsing a play in a house at Emrapasha at 11 pm when a group of 15 armed militants abducted all of them. They have been identified as...

Agartala, Feb. 1: For the first time in Tripura?s electoral history, security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations have been dragged into a major controversy by political parties.

PCC chief Birajit Sinha, who took the help of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura and its president Bijay Kumar Hrangkhwal in garnering the president?s post after losing a party election to it, is toeing the INPT?s line on nearly all issues, particularly relating to deployment of forces.

During the past decade, militant outfits have always been opposed to the deployment of Tripura State Rifles...

AGARTALA, Jan 30? Reports of sporadic clashes between political rivals are pouring in from various parts of the State as the poll fever grips the State. There were at least three fierce pitched battles between the ruling CPM cadres and Opposition cadres in West and Dhalai district. While two persons were injured one hut was also set afire by the miscreants. Police sources said, all measures are being ensured to prevent such fall-out and appeals were made to the political leaders to restrain their workers from going violent.

The District Magistrates (DMs) four districts of the State are also...