Pradyot Tripura Northeast alliance led by Tripura's royal family head wants to ally with TMC
Guwahati/IBNS: In a bid to challenge the ruling BJP in Tripura, an alliance was formed on Tuesday between The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) and the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) , reported media.
The alliance, mainly targeting the 2023 assembly polls in the state, gains significance as the BJP initiated coalition - the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) formed in 2016, rules all the eight states in the northeast.
Pradyot Manikya Debburman, the chairman of TIPRA and the head of the royal family of Tripura, is spearheading the alliance.
He said it was open to an alliance with West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress for the 2023 polls in his state,according to an NDTV report.
TMC has lately intensified its political activities in the state to gain ground in view of the next assembly polls,
AJP President Lurinjyoti Gogoi said the new platform aims to strengthen the regional political movement in the region and a final decision on the platform will be announced soon after the discussion with other regional parties, it added.
"The whole of northeast is now ruled by one party...the BJP and its allies. The allies of the BJP are not happy. You have seen what has happened in Assam and Meghalaya as well," the Tipra Chairman said in Guwahati today, said the report.
"The idea is to form a pivotal platform that speaks in the voice of the northeast, not the language of Delhi."
Debburman claimed to be in talks with many NEDA partners -- the IPFT in Tripura and other outfits in Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram as "their issues are not addressed". He also called NEDA "only an election-winning machine", according to the report.
The TIPRA and AJP also put forward the primary demands of the newly-formed alliance. These are immediate repeal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, updating the National Register of Citizens, ensuring constitutional provisions for the protection of Tripura's indigenous identities and cultures, and the formation of Tipraland or Greater Tripraland.
"The people of Northeast are realising and even paying for the...BJP's aggressive agenda in order to strengthen their foothold in the Northeast...they are trying to implement their concept of Hindutva which is different from the old traditions of Hinduism based on love and compassion," Gogoi was quoted as saying by NDTV.
"As a result, many ethnic traditions and languages have become either extinct or endangered."
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