By Firstdespatch Desk Feb 27, 2025
Agartala, Feb 27 (FD) The Tipra Motha Supremo Pradyot Kishore Debbarma on Thursday said his party did not leave its demand for a separate ‘Tipraland’, but waiting for appropriate time.
Speaking in the first plenary session of the Youth Tipra Federation at the Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan here, Debbarma said, “We want free Tipraland, this is our demand, but this is not the right time to concede the demand. We want unity first and then we would be able to achieve everything. For how long, Indians had to fight for freedom? But they finally achieved it may be 200 years after. For how many years did BJP fight for Ram Mandir, but they achieved it later”.
He appealed to all sections of tribals in the state to remain united to get its demand conceded.
He said there is a planning by a section of people to break unity of the ‘Tipra’ people in the name of different tribes like Reangs, Tripuri etc but ‘we have to remain united’ to achieve our demands.
“During princely time we had fought Mughals and won the battle because there was no Reang or Debbarma. We fought united and could defeat Mughals. We have to remain united”, he said.
He also asserted that only the youths can resist the conspiracy to divide ‘Tipra’ people. “The youths can resist the planning of some people to divide us. I can say that I will never betray our people”, he said.
Debbarma said, the tribal party should be a factor in 2028, but if they are divided in different parties they would lose.
The next assembly elections in the state for the sixty member seats would be held in 2028.
Debbarma also said that the party has to fight against corruptions and fight for land rights, political rights and everything is possible if ‘Tipra’ people remain united.
The tribals constitute one third of the state’s population and the Tipra Motha party is also in control of the Tripura tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which constitute two third of the state’s territory.
In the sixty-member assembly, the Tipra Motha Party has 13 MLAs, when its partner BJP has 33 and another coalition partner IPFT has one MLA. When the opposition CPI-M has 10 seats and the Congress has 3 seats. FD JK