Tripura Assembly elections: TIPRA Motha to contest 42 seats
3 min readBy Express News Service
GUWAHATI: The TIPRA Motha will contest 42 of Tripura’s 60 seats.
The tribe-based get together launched its third listing of 12 candidates on the final day of submitting nominations on Monday. The first listing had the names of 20 candidates and the second, launched on Sunday evening, had 10 names.
The TIPRA Motha is influential within the 20 seats reserved for the STs within the tribal areas which make up two/thirds of Tripura. The 22 normal seats, the place it fielded candidates, have small tribal populations.
The get together’s outstanding candidates embody former BJP legislator Ashish Das, former Congress MLA Tapas De, former Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLAs Dhananjay Tripura and Brishaketu Debbarma, insurgent leader-turned-politician Ranjit Debbarma and former Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council chief Hongso Kumar Tripura.
None from the state’s royal household, together with TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, is contesting.
Debbarma, who rose via the ranks within the Congress and served as its state president earlier, mentioned the TIPRA Motha would battle for the “Greater Tipraland” state. The get together calls for the creation of a separate state for the Tiprasa (Tripura’s ethnic communities) via the bifurcation of the state’s tribal areas.
“We will keep fighting for our Constitutional demand (Greater Tipraland). If we can achieve it, the development will automatically come (in the tribal areas),” Debbarma instructed journalists on Monday.
“No national political party had ever spoken about development in the tribal areas until we raised the demand. I have realised that if they are not shaken, they will not talk about our issues,” he added.
The TIPRA Motha goes it alone within the polls after its talks with the BJP failed. It had sought a written assurance on the statehood demand however the BJP-led central authorities refused to provide something in writing.
Debbarma needed BJP ally IPFT to merge with the TIPRA Motha. The concept was to thwart the division of tribal votes and make issues tough for the BJP. However, the saffron get together managed to thwart the try. It cast a pre-poll alliance with the IPFT as within the final election.
GUWAHATI: The TIPRA Motha will contest 42 of Tripura’s 60 seats.
The tribe-based get together launched its third listing of 12 candidates on the final day of submitting nominations on Monday. The first listing had the names of 20 candidates and the second, launched on Sunday evening, had 10 names.
The TIPRA Motha is influential within the 20 seats reserved for the STs within the tribal areas which make up two/thirds of Tripura. The 22 normal seats, the place it fielded candidates, have small tribal populations.
The get together’s outstanding candidates embody former BJP legislator Ashish Das, former Congress MLA Tapas De, former Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLAs Dhananjay Tripura and Brishaketu Debbarma, insurgent leader-turned-politician Ranjit Debbarma and former Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council chief Hongso Kumar Tripura.
None from the state’s royal household, together with TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, is contesting.
Debbarma, who rose via the ranks within the Congress and served as its state president earlier, mentioned the TIPRA Motha would battle for the “Greater Tipraland” state. The get together calls for the creation of a separate state for the Tiprasa (Tripura’s ethnic communities) via the bifurcation of the state’s tribal areas.
“We will keep fighting for our Constitutional demand (Greater Tipraland). If we can achieve it, the development will automatically come (in the tribal areas),” Debbarma instructed journalists on Monday.
“No national political party had ever spoken about development in the tribal areas until we raised the demand. I have realised that if they are not shaken, they will not talk about our issues,” he added.
The TIPRA Motha goes it alone within the polls after its talks with the BJP failed. It had sought a written assurance on the statehood demand however the BJP-led central authorities refused to provide something in writing.
Debbarma needed BJP ally IPFT to merge with the TIPRA Motha. The concept was to thwart the division of tribal votes and make issues tough for the BJP. However, the saffron get together managed to thwart the try. It cast a pre-poll alliance with the IPFT as within the final election.
