Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, March 17: Tripura University which has all along been in the thick of controversy for inept handling of the varsity affairs, is now facing contempt of court. It started with the Tripura University's attempt to appoint a financial officer on deputation. The varsity published advertisement for the intending candidates for the post. But it is alleged that the aspiring candidates were deprived of any interview on flimsy grounds as some influential sections in the institution took special care that one Shiburanranjan Saha was given the post. Saha was already on deputation in the Finance...

AIZAWL, March 14: Mizoram government is yet to give its reply to the offer for peace dialogue by the Bru National Front (BNLF), according to a top government officials, reports PTI. The officials who preferred to remain anonymous told PTI that the BNLF general secretary Solomon Prophul had written a letter to the state's Home Minister Tawnluia offering peace dialogue with the participation of officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and representatives of the Bru Welfare Association of Mizoram. The BNLF also conditions for talks saying the venue should be outside Mizoram, either at Kolkata...

AGARTALA, March 13: The crisis in the Indigenous Peoples' Front of Tripura over the election of a new executive council and member has taken a turn for the worse with the murder of a party worker and direct interference by a militant outfit in the election process. The ousted chief executive member, Debabrata Koloi, who had been planning a revolt, was called by the "invisible allies" to the remote Vaishyamonipara and warned against defecting from the IPFT. Police sources said clashes broke out between rival groups owing allegiance to ousted chief Koloi and aspirant Sridam Debbarma after 23...

AIZAWL, March 13: Mizoram Government, on March 12 said that it was ready for any peace efforts to ensure that the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) shun the path of violence and come over-ground even as the BNLF sets a series of conditions for peaceful dialogue. State Home Minister Tawnluia told PTI here that the government wanted that all the BNLF cadres should bid farewell to arms and lead normal lives before the commencement of repatriation process of Bru refugees from Tripura. "Any arrangement to bring all the BNLF militants overground is welcomed including a well organised dialogue'...

AGARTALA, March 11: The deadlock in the autonomous district council over the resignation of its chief executive member Debabrata Koloi continued even as the Governor, Lt. Gen. (retd.) K.M. Seth passed an order last night empowering the chief executive officer of the ADC to carry on the administration under rule 158(2) governing the Tripura tribal areas autonomous district council. Earlier, the Governor accepted Koloi's resignation and directed ADC chairman Hirendra Tripura to convene a special session under rule 173 to elect a new incumbent and reconstitute the executive council. The Governor...

AGARTALA, March 10: In a new twist to the ongoing feud in the Indigenous Peoples' Front of Tripura, senior party leader and chief executive of the autonomous district council (ADC) Debabrata Koloi tendered his resignation to the district council chairman Hirendra Tripura. Koloi's letter did not specify why he was resigning from the 28-member council. Neither was he available for comment. His detractors in the IPFT had, in deputation, met Governor Lt. Gen. (retired) Krishna Mohan Seth on March 7. They submitted a memorandum seeking his ouster saying 11 out of 18 elected members in the council...

AGARTALA, March 10: Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) Chief Executive Member Debabrata Kaloi resigned here last night owing to an internal feud in the Indeginous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT), reports UNI. Kaloi tendered his resignation letter to Council Chairman Hirendra Tripura as most of the TTAADC members in the IPFT demanded his resignation. Later, a three-member delegation, led by Tripura met Governor Lt Gen (retd) KM Seth and apprised him of the development. IPFT sources said here today that TTAADC members belonging to the tribal-based party will meet here in a...

AGARTALA, March 8: The Sanathan Dharma Parishad, an affiliate of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, will form Dharma Suraksha Samiti units in Tripura to protect tribal and non-tribal Hindus from persecution by the National Liberation Front of Twipra. Stating this at a news conference here today, VHP international president Ashok Singhal said the units would comprise about 15 "unarmed volunteers" each. They would be engaged in the task of protecting Hindus in a peaceful and non-violent way, he said. Replying to a question, he said the VHP would launch its reconversion drive in the Northeast also as in...

AGARTALA, March 7: The autonomous district council of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura faces a split. The IPFT chief, Harinath Devbarma, has demanded the immediate removal of Debabrata Koloy as the council's chief executive member. An IPFT delegation, led by Harinath Devbarma met the Governor, Gen (retired) KM Seth, here yesterday and urged him to pressure the council authorities to arrange for its special session. The members want to raise the issue of Koloys removal in the special session. Eleven members of the council's ruling group signed a memorandum to this effect and submitted...

AGARTALA, March 7: A vertical split seems imminent in the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), which of late has emerged as one of the most powerful tribal base parties in the State, capturing the Tripura Tribal Autonomous District Council (TTADC). It routed the ruling Left Front from its traditional tribal base in rural and hill areas and bagged 18 out of the total 28 seats open for contest. Two members are nominated by the Governor. It was widely believed and alleged that the outlawed militant organisation NLFT has played a key role in bringing the IPFT to power in the TTADC. But...