Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) has announced that it will hold a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 24 August in support of its demand for a separate Tipraland state.
The IPFT which was formed in the 1990s with the goal of carving out ‘Tipraland’ from Tripura, is an ally of Hindu nationalist party, BJP.
“Like previous years, we shall demonstrate at Jantar Mantar for a full-fledged Tipraland on August 23 to mark ‘Tipraland Statehood Demand Day’. We shall also give a memorandum to the prime minister and the home minister demanding the upgradation of the TTAADC (Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council) into a separate state as per Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution,” Indian Express quotes IPFT leaders in Agartala as saying.
The party allied with the BJP before the 2018 Assembly polls in Tripura and formed a coalition government.
In 2019, the IPFT held a protest in New Delhi and requested the Union government to expedite the report of the committee which was formed in 2018 to examine socio-cultural, ethnic, linguistic and economic problems of Tripura’s indigenous communities.
Two years later, in 2021, the IPFT and the TIPRA Motha held a protest in the national capital to press the Union for a separate Tipraland state for tribals.
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