Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, May 8 ? Arrested Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) leader Mebar Kumar Jamatia, has confessed that he and kidnapped assistant general secretary of the party, Sridam Debbarma, went to a West Tripura village for a secret meeting with the banned Nationalist Liberation Front of Tripura on Friday, reports PTI. Jamatia said during interrogation that he was released by the NLFT the same day, but the insurgents took away Debbarma, police sources said on Tuesday. Jamati is in police remand for five days in connection with the kidnap of Debbarma, also an executive member of...

AGARTALA, May 6? Police have arrested Mebar Kumar Jamatia, a leader of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), in connection with the reported kidnap of assistant general secretary of the party, Sridam Debbarma, police sources said here Monday, reports PTI. Jamatia was remanded to five days police custody for investigation into the reported kidnap of Debbarma, also an executive member of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) from Gurudayal Para in West Tripura district. Jamatia accompanied Debbarma when they went to Gurudayal Para on Friday last, police said adding...

AGARTALA, May 5 ? The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) on Saturday claimed the organisation?s assistant general secretary Sridam Debbarma has been kidnapped by armed ultras from Gurudayalpara in West Tripura district on Friday but though the police were yet to confirm the incident, they launched a search operation, reports PTI. Superintendent of Police (Operations) Dhurjoti Gautam said police launched a search operation to trace Debbarma, also the executive member of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), after his personal guard informed the police that he...

AGARTALA, May 2 ? Thirtyfour surrendered insurgents of Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA) are on an indefinite relay hunger strike demanding immediate rehabilitation. The insurgents led by TRA chief Dhananjo Reang resorted to the indefinite hunger strike at their official quarter?s at Kunjaban near the State capital since Tuesday last, police said. The TRA chief said their demands include government job, financial assistance and withdrawal of cases pending against them and other rehabilitation measures. About 111 TRA insurgents had surrendered unconditionally before the then State Home Minister...

AGARTALA, April 30 ? The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), an outfit of Mizoram has scaled down their demand for autonomous district council to the regional council to facilitate signing of a peace accord with the Mizoram government. The president of the BNLF Thang Masha in a memorandum to Mizoram government recently said for an early solution of problems through a peace accord it has scaled down the demand to regional council for the Bru community which can be formed in the western part of the Mamit district. Masha has put forward 12 point charter of demands to the State government...

AGARTALA, April 27? What makes the National Liberation Front of Tripura, the banned outfit, different from other militant organisations? Well, dubious it may sound, but fact is that it is the NLFT militant?s shameless, selective and sustained attack on women that turned the tribal outfit into a brute force. And most of the women raped, killed and kidnapped by the tribal insurgents of Tripura belong to their own community only. In a renewed violence from January 1 to till date, 38 persons were killed by the militants and most of them are directly or indirectly ruling party supporters. But what...

AGARTALA, April 23 ? Outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura has of late intensified the activities in several parts of the State targetting the ruling CPM leaders. Close on the heels of murder of four tribals belonging to Gana Mukti Parishad, the tribal wing of the CPM, in West Tripura district the militants in a daring grenade attack at Khowai town last night injured five more. Among the killed tribals are two women. Two senior CPM leaders were injured in the grenade attack. Heavily armed NLFT militants raided the house of Amarendranagar Gram Panchayat chairman and local CPM leader...

AGARTALA, April 20 ? The demand for removal of PCC president Birajit Sinha from the party unit chief?s post has been intensified. A group of 27 dissident PCC members and senior leaders of the party?s State unit led by MLA Kashiram Reang, MLA Dipak Roy and former MLA Tapas Dey left for New Delhi on Friday. The MLAs are known as followers of former Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Barman. Barman?s son and MLA Sudip Roy Barman, who is also Youth Congress president, is expected to fly for Delhi on Monday next. Some more including those MLAs who recently sent a memorandum to AICC for Sinha?s replacement...

AGARTALA, April 12 ? The perennial Congress squabble took an ugly turn yesterday when some unruly workers heckled PCC president Birajit Sinha at Agartala airport. Sinha had gone to receive the two AICC observers R K Tomba and S Raj Kumar when the Congress activists allegedly belonging to his detractors? faction, heckled him. They were demanding his immediate removal from the post of the PCC president. The Congress chiefs vehicle also bore the brunt as the workers resorted to stone pelting. Tomba and Rajkumar have come to Tripura to supervise the organisational activities in all the districts...

AGARTALA, April 11 ? Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Wednesday said his government would provide safe passage to the state?s insurgents if they came out to hold talks with State or Central Governments, and ruled out the need for enforcement of POTA in the State, reports PTI. The State Government had been repeatedly calling upon insurgents of both banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Forces (ATTF) to hold talks with the government for an amicable solution to insurgency problem, Sarkar told newsmen here Tuesday night.