AGARTALA, Aug 24 (TIWN): The regional IPFT party, known for the unruly behaviour of his cadres, staged another ugly show at Agartala on Tuesday. The show in the form of procession moved through the streets of Agartala raising slogans for separate state called ‘Twipra land’, shouting abuses at Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and vociferously opposing any interaction between tribals and non-tribal’s.The unruly cadres of IPFT had also assaulted peaceful citizens who needed emergency crossing of the roads. The whole ugly show left a better taste in the minds of the people of Agartala. The unruly act of IPFT cadres has generated resentment among the peace loving people of Agartala city. IPFT’s rally has created unrest across the state especially at Agartala city when clash erupted at the three most crowded place of Agartala at Aitorma, Cornnel Chowmuhani, Press club and many other located place of the city. Reportedly, in some places some of the youths in uncontrolled situation were harassing people, drinking liquor from soda bottles, scared shopkeepers complained before the police. But police played different roles in same day at two different places. Police were hyper active when NSUI staged dharna in front of Manik Dey’s home. At the same time with violent IPFT youths, police were just mute spectators as instructed by CPI-M honchos to keep tribal vote bank intact.

Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) organized this rally in Agartala on Tuesday demanding for a separate state. The party IPFT is so much eager to achieve ‘Twipra-land’ with areas under tribal autonomous district council to protect the rights and identity of Tripura’s tribal population.

Their rally also followed by a mass demonstration at Vivekananda stadium and along with a riot.

While the party has been raging with movement for concentrated development of tribals since the past few years, the govt. is silent.  Tribal vote bank in the 2018 may be concerning CM and thus they had been allowed to go for a mass rally and do a chaos in the state.

IPFT which is known as a hardliner party and often blamed for its alleged soft stance on extremist movements is clearly trying to woo the tribal society after years of political isolation.