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The TIPRA and the INPT had contested the TTAADC polls as alliance partners on April 6 and won 18 out of the total 28 seats.
TIPRA chairman Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman told reporters, the merger was a post-poll unification to achieve the common goal of forming Greater Tipraland. Greater Tipraland is an extension of the IPFTs demand of Tipraland, a separate state for the tribals of Tripura.
Agartala: A month after their alliance won the state tribal council polls, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), the oldest tribal party in the state, has merged with the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) to achieve their common goal of Greater Tipraland .
The BJP, which formed the government in Tripura for the first time in history three years back, has now faced a humiliating defeat in an election to a Tribal Council of the state in the hands of a newly-floated regional party. What is more alarming for the saffron party is that the victorious party has been formed opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 by Prodyut
The alliance (16 seats) along with its ally Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (2 seats) won 18 of the 28 seats, ending Left Front’s 15-year rule of the council
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TIPRA chairman Pradyot Kishore after winning the district council polls. Photo: Tanmoy Chakraborty
Politics11/Apr/2021
Agartala: A party newly floated by the Tripura royal scion has won a surprise, landslide victory in the crucial Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council poll, dealing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura a major blow.
Two years after resigning from the post of president of Tripura Pradesh Congress over differences with the high command, Pradyot Kishore Manikya Deb Barman founded the combine called The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA). On April 10, the party bagged 18 out of 28 seats of the TTAADC that went to polls on April 6.
Why ex-Congress leader âMaharajâ Pradyot Debbarma could now hold key to 2023 Tripura polls
Pradyot Manikyaâs TIPRA Motha & its ally INPT won 18 seats in tribal areasâ district council polls, while BJP won 9 and its partner IPFT drew a blank.
Karishma Hasnat 11 April, 2021 5:50 pm IST Text Size:
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Guwahati:Â Saturdayâs Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election results showed the indigenous people voted for the leadership of a single man â royal scion and former state Congress president Pradyot Kishore Debbarma (also known as Pradyot Manikya).
The TTAADC covers 68 per cent of the total geographical area of Tripura, and is home to over one-third of the total state population. The district council has a total of 30 seats, of which 28 are for elected members, while two are nominated by the governor of Tripura.