Agartala, Jan 18: Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma said his regional party will field candidates in 40-45 seats in the Tripura Assembly election. Election to the 60-member Tripura Assembly this year.
Debbarma said his party will give tickets to non-Tiprasa (non-tribal) people also.
While addressing a press conference, the royal scion said that “I will give tickets to non-Tiprasa people too as we did in the Surma Assembly by-election in Dhalai district …”.
“I do not want to split votes to stop wrong elements to get elected. The party will put up candidates where winning is possible”, Debbarma said.
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He also mentioned that his party appealed to the BJP-ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) for unification as it did not want division of tribal votes, but has not received any response from the IPFT.
“I appealed to the IPFT leaders for the unification of both parties for unity forgetting the name but it seems they are in talks with the BJP”, he said.
The Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or Tipra Motha, a regional political party led by royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, seeks a ‘greater Tipraland’, a separate state for the indigenous people of Tripura.
Tipra Motha won the elections to Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) in 2021 and has a strong presence in the 20 tribal seats in the state.
