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Tripura IPFT to meet Modi, Shah over statehood demand
TIWN July 13, 2019
TIWN July 13, 2019
PHOTO : IPFT's protest for Tipraland in Baramura (Tripura) in 2017. File Photo.
Agartala, July 13 : Leaders of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the ruling BJP, will meet the Prime Minister, Home Minister and other central ministers in Delhi next week to press their statehood demand.
"We would leave Agartala for New Delhi on Sunday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other central ministers on July 15 and 16," a party leader said on Saturday.
"Besides our main demand of statehood, we would press for other demands for the all round development of the tribals in Tripura," IPFT General Secretary and Forest Minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia told IANS.
The IPFT, a tribal-based local party, has been agitating since 2009 for a separate state to be carved out by upgrading the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which has jurisdiction over two-thirds of Tripura's 10,491 sq-km area, home to over 12,16,000 people.
Tripura's oldest tribal-based political party, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), as well as the dominant ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the opposition Congress and Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left Front have, however, been opposed to the IPFT's separate state demand.
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