Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, Feb 25 — Left Front candidate and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Khagen Das has won the West Tripura Lok Sabha bye-poll with a margin of 1.49 lakh votes over his nearest rival Congress-Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura candidate Prof Manik Deb. There were seven other candidates in the fray, including Trinamul Congress and Nationalist Congress Party and all of them forfeited their security. The most humiliating defeat was for former Chief Minister and Trinamul Congress chairman Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar who begged unexpectedly low votes.

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AGARTALA, Feb 8 — In a significant development in the Tripura politics, two powerful tribal parties, IPFT and TUJS formally announced their merger and emergence of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura Thursday. Former militant leader Bijoy Hrangkhawl who had dissolved his Tripura National Volunteers and joined the IFT has been made the first president of the INPT. TUJS general secretary Rabindra Debbarma was made general secretary of INPT. The vice-presidents are Nagendra Jamatia and Debabrata Koloy while the assistant general secretaries are Amiya Debbarma, Ananta Debbarma and Sridam...

AGARTALA, Feb 6 — The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked a Mog hamlet at Nalicherra in Dhalai last night and shot dead seven villagers, all tribals. Among the killed are two women. Four more were injured in the attack. According to reports reaching here from Ambassa, district headquarters, a group of about 25 militants first cordoned off the village market at West Nalicherra at around 6.25 pm last night and opened indiscriminate firing from their automatics. Most of the villagers who were sitting at the shop of one Changmung Mog were riddled with bullets...

AGARTALA, Feb 2 — Over four hundred CPI(M) workers have been killed in attacks by insurgents and their collaborators in Tripura during the last four years, party functionary Gautam Das has claimed, reports PTI. Of the 448 activists, two belonged to the state committee of the party, 13 belonged to district committees and 14 to the local committees, Das, a member of the state secretariat of the ruling CPI(M) and editor of party mouthpiece Desher Katha told a press conference here on Friday. Meanwhile, the 17th state conference of the Tripura unit of the party will begin here from tomorrow. At...

AIZAWL, Feb 1 — The third round of talks between the Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front on repatriation of Bru refugees lodged in camps in Tripura and other issues, schedule for Thursday, have been postponed as BNLF representatives failed to turn up, reports PTI. Officials in the state home department said that the next date would be decided by the BNLF and conveyed to the state government. The last round of talks was held in November. The parleys between the two parties assumed added significance after the Mizoram government linked repatriation of the Bru refugees in...

GUWAHATI, Jan 20 — RSS chief K S Sudarshan today charged certain churches in the country including some in the North East, with indulging in conversion with a political motive and taking the help of militants, reports PTI. “Some churches in the country and the North East were busy in conversion after being politically motivated which was a kind of violence and terror’, Sudarshan told mammoth rally of RSS workers at the Netaji School in Maligaon here. Referring to NE states and Tripura in particular, the RSS leader said it was indeed a matter of great concern that militant outfits, including...

AGARTALA, Jan 20 — In a significant development in Tripura politics, two powerful tribal parties of the state, Tripura Upajati Juba Samity and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, are likely to announce their formal merger on February 7 next, according to sources. The two tribal parties were discussing the modalities and the name of the new proposed party for the last several months. According to sources, the TUJS highest body members of central committee would be meeting on February 2 or February 3 at Tulshibati School. In all likelihood the TUJS would dissolve itself on the same day ending...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 — The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), a Mizoram-based outfit has said all its members would surrender to the Mizoram Government if the later concedes their demands through peaceful negotiations. Two rounds of peace talks have been held with the government and we are optimistic that it would bear fruits, A Joseph, asvisor of BNLF told PTI here. ‘All the members would surrender if the government concedes our demands,’ he said. Joseph denied a press report that BNLF has recently suffered a split on the issue of surrender. The BNLF’s main demands include rehabilitation of...

AGARTALA, Jan 15 — Normal life was paralyses as the dawn to dask Tripura bandh separately called by the ruling Left Front and Opposition Congress began this morning in protest against the killing of 16 persons by NLFT insurgents at Singicherra in West Tripura district, reports PTI. Meanwhile Tripura has been put on maximum alert in the wake of the killings and a Republic Day boycott call issued by insurgents, official sources said. All the police stations in the State have been directed to intensify security measures to prevent ultras from perpetrating any more strikes with the Republic Day...

AGARTALA, Jan 13 — Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) killed 16 persons and injured nine others at Singicherra Bazar under Khowai PS, West Tripura district around 6:15 pm this evening, police sources said. The militants surrounded the market and opened indiscriminate firing killing 12 persons on the spot and critically injuring 13 others. While two persons died on way to hospital, two others succumbed to their injuries at the GB hospital in Agartala.