Campaigning for TIPRA Motha candidate in areas bordering Bangladesh, Pradyot Debbarma says BJP did fraud for 5 years in Tripura & adds only Motha can save local, indigenous people.
Seen as kingmaker ahead of Tripura polls, TIPRA Motha said it will contest alone after talks with Congress-Left & BJP fell through. For Debbarma, neither Left nor Congress adversary.
Scion of erstwhile Manikya dynasty of Tripura, Debbarma refers to himself as bubagra (king). Wooed by Congress-Left and BJP, he is believed to hold key to 10 lakh-odd tribal voters.
Senior BJP leaders, including Himanta Biswa Sarma, held talks with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss Motha’s demand. Motha has already started talks of merger with IPFT.
In Agartala visit this week, PM addressed tribals in a rally and also asked party workers how they were reaching out to the community. Party leaders point to Pradyot Debbarma factor.
In letter to son and TIPRA chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, 'Rajmata' Bibhu Kumari Devi says Congress is broken mentally & physically, shouldn't use her name and misguide people.
In interview with ThePrint, TIPRA chairman Pradyot Debbarma said his outfit now has a settled vote-bank and will ally with whoever backs his demand for a state for Tripura tribals.
Trinamool Congress and Pradyot Debbarma's TIPRA are looking to fill the vacuum created by a shrinking Left-Congress and growing anti-incumbency in the BJP-ruled state.
Pradyot Debbarma, who hails from the erstwhile Tripura royal family, said the outfit is a social organisation that will work to protect rights of tribal communities.
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