Tripura: Blow for BJP as Ally IPFT Teams Up With Pradyot s TIPRA for Crucial Election
The Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election has been deferred by the BJP for close to a year and will take place before May 17, 2021.
TIPRA s Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma and IPFT leaders on Friday, February 19. Photo: By arrangement.
Politics19/Feb/2021
Agartala: Ahead of the forthcoming Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of the state has received a major jolt as its alliance partner Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) has joined hands with The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA).
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.