Two days demonstration for ‘Greater Tipraland’ in Jantar Mantar ends
The two days long demonstration by regional Tipra-Motha at ‘Jantar Mantar’ in New Delhi in support of their ‘Greater Tipraland’ demand ended on Tuesday.
While, addressing the large gathering , Tipra-Motha’s chairman and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma said Motha ready to fight alone in the 2023 assembly elections in Tripura.
They submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Ministry demanding up gradation of the TTAADC to a "Greater Tipraland " under article 2 and 3 of the Constitution for the protection of demography and rights of the tribals.
The memorandum signed by Pradyot Bikram Kishor Debbarman, B K Hrangkhawl, Jagadish Debbarma, Animesh Debbarma, Mevar Kumar Jamatia, Kamal Kaloi and few others were sent to the Home Ministry as none from the government side had contacted them.
In a Facebook message Pradyot Bikram said ‘Today on the second day of our sit-in demonstration at Jantar Mantar, #Delhi the energy and enthusiasm were much higher than ever before. On the death anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, we reiterated our demand for a permanent constitutional solution. We are confident that very soon the Govt. of India will be compelled to follow his vision in letter and spirit and accept our demand for ‘Greater Tipraland’.
Pradyot Kishore on Tuesday also visited Supreme Court with his lawyers and later in a message said In the Supreme Court today all together for the CAA matter! Justice delayed is justice denied.
Meanwhile the party workers went to Delhi by a special train will start their return journey on December 8 and expected to reach Agartala on December 10.
Winning of the 30-member TTAADC by the TIPRA was a great significance for Tripura politics as the autonomous council has jurisdiction over two-third of Tripura's 10,491 sq. km. area and is home to over 12,16,000 people, of which around 84 per cent are tribals, making the autonomous council as a mini-assembly in Tripura after the 60-member Tripura Assembly.
The TIPRA in its memorandum to Prime Minister said that within three years after the erstwhile princely state Tripura merged with the Indian union in October 1949, the indigenous tribals were reduced in to minority and the influx of refugees continued till the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
"As the most parts of the India-Bangladesh border with Tripura (856 km) are porous, the influx from Bangladesh still continued even today. The indigenous people are getting reduced to a minority every single day... it is the question of survival and existence."
The TIPRA in its memorandum said that one of the most important royal laws -- the reservation of land Act made by then king Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya with a massive area for the indigenous people of Tripura in 1931 and 1943.
"In order to rehabilitate the refugees in Tripura state, the reservation of land was repealed in 1974 by the state government, violating government of India assurance. The indigenous people have not only been further reduced to minority but had also been dislodged from the rights on the reserved land made for them by the Maharaja," the tribal based party said.
Around 1,500 tribals from Tripura, including a large number of women, held the two-day sit-in demonstrations at Jantar Mantar in the national capital to intensify their demand for greater autonomy for the tribals with Constitutional recognition.
TIPRA chief Deb Barman said that they would continue to organize various programmes and peaceful agitations in support of their demand till their demand are not fulfill.