Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday asserted that the BJP-led authorities won’t ever assist demand like ‘Tipraland’ or ‘Greater Tipraland’, a day after a high-level assembly between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Debbarma right here. The Tipra Motha, a regional get together banking on the ‘Greater Tipraland’ demand, contested the 2023 Assembly elections and emerged because the second largest get together by profitable 13 seats within the 60-member Tripura Assembly.
“We had a discussion on tribal welfare on how to uplift the socio-economic condition of the indigenous people. No decision of appointing an interlocutor was taken in the meeting but there will be a discussion on the tribal welfare”, Saha stated.
Soon after the assembly with Union Home Minister and BJP nationwide president JP Nadda, the Tipra Motha supremo claimed that the Central authorities will formally appoint an interlocutor to look into the issues of indigenous folks for taking corrective measures. The chief minister reiterated that tribal welfare will likely be a precedence sector for the BJP-IPFT authorities.
Saha stated the BJP-IPFT authorities will work on the imaginative and prescient doc unveiled by the get together’s nationwide president earlier than the 2023 Assembly elections. Asked concerning the get together’s prospects within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the chief minister claimed the BJP will carry out higher not solely in Tripura but in addition in the whole Northeast.
“We will get more seats in the next general elections than what was the party’s tally in the 2019 elections in the Northeast”, he stated. On the primary cupboard assembly, the Chief Minister stated Binoy Bhusan Das was picked as pro-tem speaker of the Assembly and a dialogue additionally occurred on the vote on account.
“The portfolios of the new ministers will be distributed shortly”, he stated, including that bringing some new faces into the cupboard was a standard train of the BJP authorities. Four ministers of the earlier cupboard had been dropped this time.
On post-poll violence, the Chief Minister stated “Some reports are coming to my knowledge. A vested interest group is trying to create trouble. I have asked the DGP to handle the situation firmly”.
