Politics / Tripura

NEW DELHI, April 4 – Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has opposed granting of any local administrative powers to Reang tribals, many of whom have migrated to the state from neighbouring Tripura, reports PTI.

“We are trying to find an amicable solution to the problem .... but are opposed to their demand for administrative powers,” Zoramthanga told PTI after a 20-minute meeting with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani here, on Thursday. The Reangs shifted out from Tripura about two years ago alleging harassment by other tribes.

Zoramthanga said the Centre also did not approve of granting any...

AGARTALA, March 27 — Pakistan army were imparting commando training to Tripura-based insurgents in their country to launch subversive activities in Indian territory police said Wednesday quoting a surrendered militant, reports PTI.

Police said this information was available from a self-styled sergeant of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) who surrendered to the IG, CRPF, Sukhjinder Singh at Naraingarh in West Tripura district Wednesday. He had surrendered along with three other insurgents of the same outfit.

Hemanta Tripura, the self-styled sergeant who deposited an AK-46...

Agartala, March 21: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) today unanimously elected Ratanlal Nath as leader of the Tripura Opposition and formally introduced him to the House on the second day of the opening session of the Assembly.

AICC general secretaries Mani Shankar Aiyar and Mukul Wasnik, who arrived here on Wednesday, held talks with the 13 Congress legislators of the party over the past two days.

PCC president Birajit Sinha and former chief minister Samir Ranjan Barman, who was also a contender for the post, accompanied Nath to Speaker Ramendra Debnath before the Assembly session today...

Agartala, March 20: The Tripura Assembly, whose opening session commenced today, elected former handloom and handicrafts minister and sitting CPM legislator from Dharmanagar subdivision of North Tripura, Ramendra Debnath, as its new Speaker by a majority vote.

The treasury benches had submitted the name of Debnath through party MLA Manoranjan Debbarma to pro tem Speaker Samir Deb Sarkar before the session began at 11 am. The Opposition Congress-INPT combine submitted two separate proposals for electing Congress MLA Kajal Das as the Speaker. The proposals were supported and seconded by four...

AGARTALA, March 16—The Left Front government in Tripura unveiled a two-pronged new policy to tackle militancy in the state, on Saturday, reports PTI. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said the policy would try to solve the problems leading to extremism and at the same time mount pressure on militants “refusing to listen to reason”.

The state government would implement a 25-point tribal development package to achieve a tangible improvement in the quality of life and economy in interior tribal areas, he said. He renewed his appeal to militants to shun the path of violence and join the mainstream for...

Agartala, March 16: The 13 newly-elected Congress legislators in Tripura will participate in the opening session of the Assembly without a legislature party leader. The leader of the Opposition in the last Assembly, Jawhar Saha, failed to make the cut in the just-concluded elections. In the present set up, there are at least four contenders for the post of legislature party leader. They are former chief minister and leader of the Opposition Samir Ranjan Barman, Dipak Roy, Sudip Roy-Barman and former PCC president Gopal Roy.

Sources said Samir Ranjan Barman was the front-runner for the post...

AGARTALA, March 7 – Manik Sarkar-led Left Front Ministry was sworn-in today in a function at Rajbhawan. Governor Lt Gen (Retd) KM Seth administered the oath of secrecy to the new 18-member cabinet where dignitaries from all walks were present. After the swearing-in ceremony Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told newsmen that his Government’s priority are would be to develop agriculture and education sectors apart from others like infrastructure development. “We have to lift the standard of life of the people living under the BPL. And for this total development in Agriculture sector is needed’ the...

AGARTALA, March 2 – The result of assembly elections in Tripura has made it clear that people of the state did not accept the Congress-Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) alliance, allegedly backed by the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura. The ruling Left Front has returned to power with two third majority securing 40 seats in the 60-member assembly while the opposition Congress-INPT secured only 19. The result of Juvarajnagar seat is withheld as repolling has been ordered in one booth due to problems in one EVM.

“It was a blunder for us to forge an alliance with INPT...

March 1: The Left Front has returned to power in Tripura while Meghalaya threw up a hung verdict, as had been widely expected. But the surprise came from Nagaland, as the ruling Congress stared at a possible ouster from power in an upsurge by the Nagaland People’s Front.

In Assam, the ruling Congress won the Ratabari Assembly byelection with its candidate, Kripanath Mallah, defeating his nearest BJP rival Sambhu Singh Mallah by 31,170 votes. Polling was necessitated following the death of Independent MLA Ratish Ranjan Choudhury.

In Nagaland, though the Congress emerged as the single largest...

AGARTALA, March 1 ? Tripura Governor, Lt. Gen (Retd) K M Seth dissolved the Tripura Assembly to avert a constitutional crisis. The Governor issued the notification in this regard on Saturday since the dissolution of the Assembly became necessary as the gap between the period of the last and the next sessions would go beond six months after March 4, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters.

Sarkar said ?six months? time will be completed on March 4 and there is no scope of forming ministry before March 4, so he dissolved the Assembly.? The election to the 60-member House in Tripura was...