Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma. (File)
Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma has tested positive for COVID-19. “I have tested positive for coronavirus and gone in for complete isolation. I have high fever and showing symptoms like loss of smell and body achem,” he wrote on his Facebook page this evening.
Pradyot, who is the chief of Tripura Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance’s (TIPRA), a socio-politcal outfit, had been travelling across the state for the past many days over the anti-Bru settlement agitation. TIPRA is
seeking action from the state government in the case of a
mob lynching of a fireman trying to manage a blockade on national highway on November 21 during the anti-Bru settlement protest.