♋Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday agreed to a “constitutional solution” to meet the demands of the indigenous people of Tripura. The decision was arrived at after a post-poll meeting with a TIPRA Motha delegation led by party supremo and ex-royal Pradyot Kishore Debbarma.
ꦍTaking to Twitter, Debbarma said, “The Home Minister has started the process for a constitutional solution for the indigenous people of Tripura. An interlocutor for this process will be appointed and this will be within a specific time frame.”
🦩The leader thanked the home minister for understanding the “genuine problems of the Son of the soil”.
▨“We successfully got our Bru people rehabilitation in our state after 23 years by signing the Bru accord and today we have started a huge dialogue to ensure that our survival and existence are protected. Issues such as alliance and cabinet were never discussed only the interest of our dopha was discussed,” he said.
💦The meeting was held at the state guest house in Agartala and was also attended by BJP president J P Nadda and Tripura’s newly sworn-in chief minister Manik Saha.
👍The BJP had earlier made it clear that it was unwilling to concede a division of the tiny state of Tripura. However, its leadership also spoke of a willingness to give more legislative, financial and executive powers to the Tripura Tribal autonomous council which exists and runs affairs in areas dominated by tribal communities.
﷽Debbarma, a descendant of the former ruling family of Tripura, had long been seeking a constitutional remedy to the demands by his party for a separate state of Tiprasa. The Tipra Motha recently won 13 seats in elections to the 60-member Tripura state assembly.
