By Firstdespatch Desk Jan 17, 2023
Agartala, Jan 17(FD): Chairman of the Tipra Motha, which is clamoring for separate ‘Greater Tipraland’ by carving out the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) today said the centre was not calling them for talks on the demand because they did not take to to arms.
“Tipra Motha demanded for greater Tipraland and wants constitutional solutions of its demand. It has not taken to arms. But the centre can talk to them who took to arms for their demands. They do not call us because we want constitutional solutions of our problem”, Tipra Motha Chairman, Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma told a press conference.
Asserting that his party is the only regional party in the state, but in the last 75-years of independence no regional party except Tipra Motha has come up.
He said, there may be Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, Shive Sena in Maharastra, Biju Janata Dal in in Odisha and in North-East there is MNF or MPP…but there is only one regional party that is Tipra Motha in Tripura.
Deb Barma said, his party would contest in 40 to 45 seats in the ensuing sixty-member assembly elections due next month and would not field candidates in those constituencies, where the chances to win is remote.
Talking about the recent broad agreement of Congress and CPI-M over seat sharing he said a situation comes, when parties of differences come together, which happened in 1989, when CPI-M and BJP came to the same platform to oust Congress in centre.
Deb Barma, who is also the royal scion said, some quarters were giving his party a slur that it was a communal party, but his party would provide election tickets to Muslims, Hindus or Manipuris, besides Tripuri people.
“I have nothing to gain from politics. I have palace, money, but I know I will not go to heaven with these. I want to go with a good name”, Debbarma said.
He reiterated that his party would forge an alliance with that party which would give assurance in writing of conceding the demand for separate ‘Greater Tipraland’. FD JK