Guwahati: The ruling BJP criticised its partner, the Tipra Motha Party ( TMP), for accusing the saffron party of not doing anything for the welfare of the tribals.
BJP’s Tripura State Vice-President Bimal Chakma, party General Secretary Bipin Debbarma and youth leader Sanjit Reang jointly said that leaders of the TMP are distorting Tripura’s history to gain electoral mileage ahead of the crucial elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) early next year.
Chakma said that the Centre renamed the Agartala Airport after the erstwhile king Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur (1923–1947) and declared his birthday, August 19, as a government holiday.
“Tripura’s former Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma is a veteran tribal leader of Tripura and has now been appointed as the Governor of Telangana. President Droupadi Murmu and several BJP Chief Ministers belong to the tribal community,” Chakma, a senior tribal leader, told the media.
Recently, the BJP government increased the monthly honorarium for tribal community leaders to appeal to the sentiments of the tribals.
BJP’s State Vice-President Chakma claimed that TMP leaders, targeting CM Saha, made derogatory remarks such as calling him a “Bengali Chief Minister” and a “Bangladeshi Chief Minister.”
“The TMP leaders also announced that no national party would be allowed to enter the TTAADC areas. We have witnessed ethnic riots in Tripura in 1980,” he said, questioning whether conspiracies were being hatched to instigate enmity between tribals and non-tribals.
BJP General Secretary Bipin Debbarma said the TMP leaders are not only insulting the Chief Minister but also distorting the history of Tripura.
Recently TMP supremo Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, while addressing a party gathering at Karbook in southern Tripura’s Gomati district, once again threatened to quit the BJP-led coalition government in Tripura if the ‘Tiprasa’ (indigenous tribals) people are not given their rights.
Debbarma and his party leaders had earlier also threatened to break the alliance with the BJP. In recent months, clashes between workers of both parties have been reported, injuring more than 15 BJP members in separate incidents.
The party has been demanding “Greater Tipraland”, a separate state for tribals under Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, and the early conduct of long-pending village committee elections within the TTAADC areas.
BJP’s Tripura State Vice-President Bimal Chakma, party General Secretary Bipin Debbarma and youth leader Sanjit Reang jointly said that leaders of the TMP are distorting Tripura’s history to gain electoral mileage ahead of the crucial elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) early next year.
Chakma said that the Centre renamed the Agartala Airport after the erstwhile king Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur (1923–1947) and declared his birthday, August 19, as a government holiday.
“Tripura’s former Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma is a veteran tribal leader of Tripura and has now been appointed as the Governor of Telangana. President Droupadi Murmu and several BJP Chief Ministers belong to the tribal community,” Chakma, a senior tribal leader, told the media.
Recently, the BJP government increased the monthly honorarium for tribal community leaders to appeal to the sentiments of the tribals.
BJP’s State Vice-President Chakma claimed that TMP leaders, targeting CM Saha, made derogatory remarks such as calling him a “Bengali Chief Minister” and a “Bangladeshi Chief Minister.”
“The TMP leaders also announced that no national party would be allowed to enter the TTAADC areas. We have witnessed ethnic riots in Tripura in 1980,” he said, questioning whether conspiracies were being hatched to instigate enmity between tribals and non-tribals.
BJP General Secretary Bipin Debbarma said the TMP leaders are not only insulting the Chief Minister but also distorting the history of Tripura.
Recently TMP supremo Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, while addressing a party gathering at Karbook in southern Tripura’s Gomati district, once again threatened to quit the BJP-led coalition government in Tripura if the ‘Tiprasa’ (indigenous tribals) people are not given their rights.
Debbarma and his party leaders had earlier also threatened to break the alliance with the BJP. In recent months, clashes between workers of both parties have been reported, injuring more than 15 BJP members in separate incidents.
The party has been demanding “Greater Tipraland”, a separate state for tribals under Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, and the early conduct of long-pending village committee elections within the TTAADC areas.
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