Months ahead of the Assembly polls in Tripura, a mega rally of the influential tribal based party Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) in Agartala on Saturday is expected to have a significant impact in the political .
One more legislator of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a junior ally of the ruling BJP, resigned from the Assembly on Tuesday.Mevar Kumar Jamatia, who had been the Forest and Tribal Welfare Minister in BJP-IPFT government, .
Agartala, Oct. 14 (IANS): Another MLA of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), junior ally of the ruling BJP, resigned from the Assembly on Friday and is likely to join tribal party Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA). IPFT MLA Dhananjoy Tripura, accompanied by TIPRA supremo and former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman, submitted his resignation letter to Speaker Ratan Chakraborty, who immediately accepted it. Deb Barman told IANS that Dhananjoy Tripura and a few other leaders of different political parties, would join TIPRA on Saturday. The 32-year-old Dhananjoy Tripura, who was elected from the Raima Valley Assembly constituency in Dhalai district in the 2018 polls, is the second IPFT MLA to quit the Assembly since last year. IPFT MLA Brishaketu Debbarma also resigned from the Assembly in June last year and joined the TIPRA, reducing the party’s (IPFT) strength to seven. Dhananjoy Tripura is the sixth MLA of the BJP-IPFT ruling
Around 4,000 tourists have been stranded as vehicular movement on Sajek-Khagrachhari road remains suspended since this morning (October 5, 2022) due to landslide caused by heavy rain in Sajek of Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati.
With less than six months to go for the elections to the 60-member Assembly, the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA), a tribal-based party is fast emerging as a main force in the indigenous people dominated areas to give .