Politics / Tripura

DHARMANAGAR (North Tripura), June 13 – The leaders of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) are keen to hold peace talks with the Government of Tripura if the latter sends out positive signals in this direction. The extremist group is also willing to drop some of its demands if the government shows a favourable attitude in this regard. The news of the outfit’s talks offer were published in Chaba, a journal of the Tripura People’s Democratic Front which is closely associated with the ATTF.

It may be mentioned that the leaders of ATTF had recently prepared a 20-point charter of demands and handed...

AGARTALA, June 12 – A top leader of the outlawed All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), Sachindra Debbarma, was killed by gunmen in Bangladesh, Tripura Director General of Police G M Srivastava said here on Friday, reports PTI. Debbarma, political secretary of the ATTF and third in the hierarchy of the rebel organisation, was attacked by gunmen at Tekuarbazar near Teliapara railway station, a few km inside Bangladesh, late on Thursday, Srivastava said.

Debbarma was attacked while returning to the ATTF headquarters at Satcherri after buying supplies at Tekuarbazar, he said, adding the rebel leader...

AGARTALA, June 6 – Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Monday said that his Left Front government was not in favour of further extending the six month tenure of the ceasefire with the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) (Nayanbasi group), an insurgent outfit which signed an agreement with the State and Central government on April 15 this year, reports PTI.

Replying to a calling attention notice brought by the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Ratan Lal Nath, the Chief Minister said, according to the 'Suspension of operation Agreement' the tenure for the ceasefire was initially...

AIZAWL, May 26 : Mizoram council of ministers endorsed the draft prposals for laying down of arms by the underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) cadres and repatriation of Brus lodged in Tripura relief camps, state Chief Secretary said here today. HV Lalringa told PTI that the decision was taken by the council of ministers which met yesterday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Zoramthanga.

Agartala, May 23: The Reang tribals, identified as the only “primitive group” in Tripura, have set in motion a process of unity under the banner of a socio-cultural organisation to protect the interests of the community. A state convention of Reang “Chowdhurys” (chieftains) is being held in Karbook area under Amarpur subdivision of South Tripura to float a new organisation.

More than 500 Reang chieftains from all over the state are attending the meeting, though CPM MP from East Tripura, Bajuban Reang, will not attend as he is in Delhi.

Vasishtha Reang, a senior leader of the community, said...

The Tripura unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has snapped ties with Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura and decided to contest the forthcoming panchayat elections in the state alone, a party spokesman said on Saturday.

The decision was taken in the party’s extended meeting held here Friday, because the allies could not work in coordination during the last Lok Sabha elections in the state. The INPT remained inactive and did not show any interest to work in favour of the BJP candidate, who contested from the East Tripura constituency, BJP spokesman Sudhindra Dasgupta said adding that the party...

AGARTALA, May 15 – Before the Lok Sabha polls, the ruling CPI-M in Tripura had only one objective - to increase the margin of its contestants - and they did it in style, reports PTI. The party won both the Lok Sabha seats in the state by a record margin for the fourth time in a row and the deposits of all other contestants were forfeited.

In the 1999 general elections, Samar Chowdhury of the CPI-M defeated his Trinamool Congress rival and former chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumder by 1,98,399 votes in the West Tripura constituency. And this time, CPI-M’s Khagen Das defeated his nearest...

AIZAWL, May 6 – The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) and the underground Bru National Liberation Front have refuted allegations by Mizoram Opposition parties that the BNLF leaders forcibly collected 3,620 postal ballot papers, reports PTI. A press release issued by the MBDPF, faxed to media here from Kanchanpur in North Tripura, said free and fair polls to Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat was conducted in the relief camps in Tripura on April 20.

“The postal ballot papers, after each voter exercised their franchise, were placed inside envelopes which were sealed and were collected by...

New Delhi, May 5: The displaced Bru community of Mizoram is set to return home from the refugee camps of Tripura after seven years of uncertainty and hardship. The militant Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) and the Mizoram government have drafted an agreement on rehabilitation of the 40,000-odd members of the tribe who were hounded out of the state in 1997.

“The draft of the accord has been finalised and it will be placed before the cabinet for approval very soon. Almost all contentious issues have been resolved and the accord is likely to be signed after May 25, by which time the poll...

Agartala, May 4: The honeymoon between the ruling CPM and the newly-formed National Socialist Party of Tripura (NSPT) appears to be over with the Left Front government slashing the quantum of grants promised to the cash-strapped Autonomous District Council. A source said the CPM was upset with the NSPT leadership for allegedly not co-operating with it during the Lok Sabha campaign.

Though NSPT president and former deputy Speaker Gaurishankar Reang and ADC chief executive member Hirendra Kumar Tripura shared the dais with chief minister Manik Sarkar at rallies in Shantir Bazar and Agartala...