No question of dividing Tripura: CM Manik Sarkar

30 Dec 2013 Evaluate

Chief Minister Manik Sarkar stated that Tripura’s Left Front government would not allow any attempt to divide the northeastern state, asserting that he would resist any such move with all his might. Highlighting the division of Andhra Pradesh to create Telangana by the Congress-led central government to get electoral benefits, he mentioned that a small political party has also started demanding a split in Tripura.

Chief Minister Manik Sarkar underscored that Governance has been reaching every village in Tripura. People of all ethnic and religious groups are getting dispassionate services and benefits from the government. None of them have any resentment and there is transparency in running the government and added that the Tripura government has successfully resolved the over 40-year-old terrorism problem in the state but some people are trying to revive militancy for narrow political interests.

The Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a tribal political party, has been demanding a separate state, to be carved out of Tripura, by upgrading the Tribal Autonomous District Council (TADC). IPFT president Narandra Chandra Debbarma stated that they have submitted an eight-page memorandum to home ministry officials.

Congress leader Tapas Dey suggested that Tripura is one of the smallest states in India and cannot be divided further and added that the socio-economic condition of tribals can be upgraded without forming a new state if there is political will on the part of rulers, and the tribals extend support.

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