Tag: Tripura BJP

  • Sudip Roy Barman, Asish Saha join Congress after quitting Tripura BJP

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Sudip Roy Barman and Asish Saha, who resigned as MLAs from the Tripura Assembly and quit the BJP, joined the Congress on Tuesday.

    They joined the Congress here in the presence of former party chief Rahul Gandhi, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and AICC incharge of state Ajoy Kumar.

    Barman and Saha had on Monday resigned from the Tripura Assembly and the primary membership of the BJP, the ruling party in the North-eastern state where assembly election is due next year.

    Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty accepted the resignation of Barman and Saha.

  • TMC slams BJP for ‘attack’ on Abhishek Banerjee’s car in Tripura

    By Express News Service
    GUWAHATI: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday alleged the car of its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was attacked by BJP workers in Tripura.

    The party claimed three of his security personnel, who came from Kolkata, were injured.

    Today, I visited the Tripureshwari temple. I pray to Maa Tripureshwari for the well-being of everyone in our country.Despite using all his might, @BjpBiplab SHALL NOT be able to stop me from reaching out to the people of #Tripura who deserve to see the light of Democracy! pic.twitter.com/do4a3oyiCJ
    — Abhishek Banerjee (@abhishekaitc) August 2, 2021

    The incident occurred when Banerjee was returning to Agartala after offering puja at the famous Tripureswari temple in the state’s Udaipur.

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    Banerjee told reporters his car was attacked with sticks. He alleged road blockades were organised to prevent his visit to the temple.

    He shared a video in a tweet and wrote: “Democracy in Tripura under @BJP4India rule! Well done @BjpBiplab for taking the state to new heights.”

    Democracy in Tripura under @BJP4India rule!Well done @BjpBiplab for taking the state to new heights. pic.twitter.com/3LoOE28CpW
    — Abhishek Banerjee (@abhishekaitc) August 2, 2021

    The BJP’s state unit rubbished the TMC’s charge. “No BJP workers obstructed or attacked Banerjee,” the party said.

  • Ruling BJP handed defeat in Tripura tribal council polls

    Express News Service
    GUWAHATI: The BJP on Saturday suffered a shock defeat at the hands of The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections.

    The newly-floated TIPRA, an umbrella body of tribal parties, swept the polls, winning 18 of the 28 seats. The combine of BJP and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), which rules the state, won nine seats while the other seat went to an independent candidate. Left Front and Congress drew a blank.

    The polling, held on Tuesday, recorded a voters’ turnout of 85%.

    The TIPRA, headed by Tripura’s royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman who had earlier served as the Pradesh Congress chief, was floated a few months ago. The state’s oldest tribal political party Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) is a TIPRA component. It was earlier a Congress ally.

    The TTAADC was constituted in 1985 under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution for the socio-economic development of the state’s tribals. The council’s jurisdiction is spread over two-thirds of Tripura’s 10,491 sq km area and home to 12.16 lakh people, 90% of which are tribals.

    The term of the TTAADC, of which the Governor is the constitutional head, had expired on May 17 last year but the elections could not be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By promulgating the Governor’s rule, the state government had appointed a retired IAS officer as its administrator for six months. Later, his tenure was extended by another six months.

    The demography of Tripura underwent a major change as a result of migration from then East Bengal and subsequently, from Bangladesh. The tribals in the state have for long been demanding a separate state and they also waged an armed struggle.

    In 2009, the IPFT started agitating demanding that the TTAADC areas be upgraded to a separate state. The TIPRA too has raised the demand for a “greater Tipraland”.