AMARPUR 9th Sept (TIWN): DIG Uttam Majumder organized a Meeting on Law and order on recent incidents on 23rd Aug at Agartala and afterwards incidents on 8th Sept at Chalagang of Amarpur . In the meeting he said that few people with "vested interests" were through rumors and social networking sites trying to whip up ethnic tension in Tripura in the wake of the August 23 violent incidents. In Chalagnaj one school girl was missing and afterwards recover. The situation remain tense there for few days.

"The authorities would take stern action against them," DIG  warned, speaking to reporters.

Urging people to maintain peace and communal harmony, DIG said that some people with "ill motives" were trying to tarnish the long-established peace, harmony and ethnic tranquility of the northeastern state.

The IPFT has been agitating for the creation of a separate state, carved out by upgrading the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council Area (TTAADC). Tribals constitute a third of Tripura's four million populations.

The IPFT's demand was rejected by almost all political parties, including ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M