The 28 seat council is currently led by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with the Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma-led Tipra Motha party leading in the council with 16 seats. While the party crosses the majority mark in the council, it is supported by the BJP having 9 members.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday rejected the demand to introduce the Roman script for Kokborok, reigniting a decades-old debate over the script to be used for the indigenous language of Tripura's tribal communities.
Members of the Tipra Indigenous Students Federation (TISF), the student wing of Tipra Motha Party, held a candle march at Astabal Maidan in Agartala on Sunday, demanding justice for Angel Chakma, a student hailing from Nandanagar, Debram Thakur Para, who was killed in Dehradun on December
Addressing a BJP programme at Baijal Bari in Khowai district, Saha said politics of blackmail and threats had no place in a democratic system and would no longer be tolerated. "No one can stop the BJP from organising programmes or working for the welfare of Janajati communities in TTAADC
This was the first major public event following the landmark joint press conference on November 4 in New Delhi, where regional leaders outlined their vision of forming a united political entity for the North East.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday said that the Civil society of Tripura has carried out an armed movement under the leadership of one person in the name of a peaceful movement, and their true nature is now clear to everyone, the Chief Minister's office said in a press release.<
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday said that no one will be spared involved in the attack on government officials in Santirbazar under Surma Assembly constituency under Dhalai District during a strike called by Tiprasa Civil Society, a part of the Tipra Motha Party (TMP).
Speaking about the incident, the Chief Minister said that on September 21, before the commencement of the Seva Pakhwada program held at Hejamara to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday, a group of miscreants, allegedly sheltered by the Tipra Motha Party, assaulted several BJP workers
Tipra Motha chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma has said that his grandmother Kanchan Prabha Devi was instrumental in Tripura, then a princely state, becoming a part of India after Partition and it was achieved with support of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who also played a role in thwarting th
Noting that development funds sent by the Centre to Tripura government must be adequately distributed for the progress of the indigenous people of the state, Tipra Motha Party president Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma has said "they don't want bheek" and getting funds for the progress of t
Tipra Motha Party founder and erstwhile royal of Tripura, Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, claimed that his great-great-grandfather, then Maharaja Bir Chandra Manikya, took the first-ever selfie in India in 1880.
Pradyot Debbarma, who is scion of Tripura's erstwhile royal family, also recalled attempts by Pakistan to create trouble in 1947 and Tripura's signing the Instrument of Merger with India.