AGARTALA, April 12 (TIWN): “We will win all the 28 seats of Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections which will be held on May 3”, said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and CPI (M) Politbureau member while addressing in the TTAADC election campaign at Khumulwng on Saturday.

The CPI (M) led state government has provided all kinds of help to the people of the hilly areas, Sarkar added.

He further said that “A section of political parties and the leaders having close links with the banned NLFT outfits here in the state, INPT and the IPFT are the two regional parties of the state has an unswerving contact with the NLFT militants”, claimed Manik Sarkar.

INPT and the IPFT have direct links with the banned NLFT militants camped in some places namely Gandacherra, Dhamcherra, Dhalai, Kanchanpur and others. Sarkar further mentioned that some leaders here in the state often make an unswerving contact with the NLFT militants in the neighbouring states of the North East and Bangladesh before elections here in Tripura.

The demand of the separate state ­ “Twipra Land” is a dangerous move and is totally unethical. He slammed the INPT and IPFT for trying to fan unrest in the State where ‘peace has returned after two decade long insurgency and ethnic turmoil. He also criticized the separatist demand and said that the demand for a separate state carved out of Tripura was irrelevant. A section of tribal people were misguided by the slogan. He termed the slogan as conspiracy to vitiate the unity and integrity between tribal and nontribal people in the state.