Pro-Jamatiya' tag on Tripura govt

AGARTALA, February 9: Binoy Debbarma, senior leader of the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura and an executive member of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District, has threatened to go on a fast for an indefinite period. He decided to protest against the manner in which the state government allegedly encouraged the Jamatiya community leaders to indulge in excess against the poor tribal villagers at Killa, and the nearby areas of South Tripura in the past several days, in the name of 'search operation' to rescue the 21 Jamatiya activists earlier kidnapped by the NLFT. This was the first reaction of the IPFT, now the ruling group in Tripura Hill Areas Autonomous District Council after the banned NLFT was forced by police and the Jamatiya community leaders to release the Jamatiya hostages on Wednesday night. Debbarma alleged that the ruling Left Front was responsible for the worsening relation between tribal clans in Tripura. He said the Jamatiya community leaders were backed by the police and administration to indulge in violence against tribal supporters of the IPFT in the name of conducting search operation for rescuing the hostages.