Members of Indigenous Folks’s Entrance of Tripura observing a 100-hour starvation strike to demand elevation of Sixth Schedule areas of Tripura to full-flagged Statehood in New Delhi in 2017. File | Picture Credit score: V. Sudershan
In an obvious race with the Tipra Motha Occasion for prominence in State politics, Indigenous Folks’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), a junior associate of the BJP-led coalition in Tripura, will maintain an illustration in New Delhi, urgent a requirement for the augmentation of an autonomous district council by modification of Article 125 of the Structure in Parliament.
Occasion leaders stated they’d not given up the demand for a separate tribal State however primarily sought the organising of Tipra Territorial Council consistent with the Bodo Territorial Council.
The leaders had been talking right here on Sunday (November 30, 2025) after constituting a brand new central govt committee of the get together. They knowledgeable that the stir in Delhi subsequent month could be held in alliance with the Nationwide Federation of New States (NFNS) of which IPFT is a constituent.
IPFT, which has sole illustration within the State Meeting and the Cupboard headed by Chief Minister Manik Saha, doesn’t have a lot political clout within the State owing to the surge of the Tipra Motha with Larger Tipraland plank. To make itself related, the get together has begun elevating calls for just like that of the Motha.
IPFT introduced that it might maintain a ‘college students and youth rally’ in Agartala subsequent month, demanding Roman script rather than Bangla script for the Kokborok language in CBSE and State board-run secondary and better secondary examinations. The date and venue of the rally is topic to approval of the police administration, the get together leaders added.
The script controversy resurfaced a day after Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarman expressed utter concern over the resentment within the indigenous group for not permitting reply sheets in Roman script. He sought quick decision of the contentious challenge.
Printed – November 30, 2025 10:36 pm IST

