Agartala, Feb. 14: The BJP?s state unit has decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls alone, despite the NDA?s announcement to strike an alliance with the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT). ?There has been an alliance between the INPT and the NDA, but it has got nothing to do with the BJP, at least in Tripura,? state BJP president Ranajay Deb said.
Deb is against an alliance with the INPT because of the latter?s stand on militancy. ?How can we accept in our fold a man like Bijay Hrangkhwal, who has been an insurgent leader and even two years ago had spoken in favour of militants in an international forum?? he asked.
He said he had cordial relations with INPT leaders like Shyamacharan Tripura and Nagendra Jamatya, but could not deal with Hrangkhwal and Debabrata Koloi who have open nexus with militant outfits such the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force.
Deb made it clear that he would not have any truck with the INPT.