Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, April 10 ? The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), an ally of opposition Congress has decided to launch State-wide agitation from May first week on various burning issues. INPT general secretary Rabindra Debbarma said, a delegation would visit New Delhi in the second week of the next month to give a deputation on more power to the ADC, law and order situation of the State and solution to the tribal problems. The INPT team will include among others party?s advisory committee chairman Shyamcharan Tripura Harinath Debbarma, Bijoy Hrangkhawl, Rabindra Debbarma, CEM of ADC KM...

AGARTALA, April 9 ? Tripura Gantantrik Manch (TGM) a breakway group of the ruling CPM has vowed to offer an ?alternative? to the present political equation dominated by ruling Left Front and opposition Congress. The Manch which maintains close relations with Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS) of Saifuddin Choudhury of West Bengal has kept doors open for all secular and democratic forces for the proposed ?alternative?. TGM leader and former MP Ajay Biswas said his party will contest the ensuing Assembly elections in Tripura. Preparations for fighting the polls have already started throughout...

AGARTALA, April 8 : Tripura government has rehabilitated 59 surrendered insurgents through a year-long vocational training, official sources said today, reports PTI. State Chief Minister Manik Sarkar formally announced their rehabilitation at Shikaribari of Dhalai district yesterday and handed over necessary credentials to them. The insurgents belong to Tripura Tiger Commando Forces (TTCF) who had surrendered to different security agencies in the State during the past few years and under went vocational training under government sponsored rehabilitation scheme. The Chief Minister said the...

AGARTALA, April 6 ? Congress squabble in Tripura has deepened yesterday when Youth Congress president Sudip Roy Barman demanded immediate removal of PCC president Birajit Sinha. His demand has given a new twist to the perennial interrnecine strife, that too when the State Assembly elections are only eight months away. Roy Barman in a press conference yesterday demanding PCC president?s removal alleged, ?Sinha has not only failed to run the party affairs and live upto the expectation of the grass root workers, it is also during his tenure that party?s image has been tarnished to a great extent...

AGARTALA, March 23 ? Mystery shrouds the killing of a DSP of Tripura police, Kalyan Sarkar, and three other policemen including one Meghalaya Police inspector Pratap Chetri in a pitched shoot-out yesterday in Dharmanagar town in North Tripura district. It is evident that a serious communication gap was primarily responsible for the bizarre incident that took the lives of four policemen and rocked both Tripura and Meghalaya. Even as an eerie silence descended in the shocked town of Dharmanagar, there is still confusion as to how such a fatal mistake could take place when both the police force...

AGARTALA, March 22: In a tragic incident of mistaken identity three Tripura policemen including a DSP and a Meghalaya police inspector were killed when they got involved in a fierce shoot out in heart of Dharmanagar town in North Tripura district this morning. Police force of the both the States was chasing a gang of kidnappers. In the gun battle between the two police groups, all in civvies two policemen were seriously injured. The incident took place in a crowded bus service complex at around 9.50 am. Senior police officers rushed to the spot. All communication links with Dharmanagar remain...

AGARTALA, March 15 : Tripura Rajya Gana Mukti Parishad (GMP) the tribal wing of the ruling CPM, is now preparing to stage a comeback. The GMP, once the key players in making the tribal-dominated hills of Tripura a strong red bastion, was facing unprecedented terror campaign letloose by NLFT militants against it, allegedly 47 the behest of Indigenous Peoples Front (now Indigenous nationalist Party of Tripura). During the last one year the GMP lost 44 senior leaders as the NLFT militants resorted to selective killings. Several hundreds had to flee from their villages and as the IPFT, already...

AIZAWL, March 14 ? Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) might soon sign a memorandum of settlement to end the four-year old Bru insurgency in the State and expedite repatriation of Brus from neighbouring Tripura. Government officials, on the condition of anonymity, told PTI recently that the State government had drafted a memorandum of settlement which would be discussed in the fourth round of talks with the BNLF in the later part of this month or early March. They, however, refused to divulge the terms and conditions of the draft agreement. The officials felt that...

AIZAWL, March 16 ? Mizoram government has no intention to create a separate autonomous district council for the Brus/Reangs by carving out some parts of the State, Home Minister Tawnluia told the State Assembly here Friday, reports PTI. In a written reply to questions from Zakhu Hlychho of the Congress and J Lalthangliana of the Mizoram People?s Conference, Tawnluia said that delegation of the State governemnt and the Brus National Liberation Front (BNLF) had held four rounds of talks and would continue to have dialogue to reach a solution to the Bru problem. He informed the State...

AIZAWL, March 3 ? Talks between Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) were held Friday in ?cordial atmosphere? with both sides expressing wish for reaching an agreement on contentious issues like Bru repartriation, reports PTI. State Chief Secretary HV Lalringa said though both sides were for early resumption of talks, the dates for the rounds could be fixed on April 10, after the assembly session was over. While Lalringa led the government delegation, the four-member BNLF team was led by its self-styled home secretary Zaithanga Apeto. Two representatives of the Bru...