A day after the TIPRA Motha party’s victory in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) village council polls, party founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma on Tuesday said that he would stay away from active politics.
He also asked party workers to organise a mega rally and invite chairpersons of the village committees. He also asked the central and state government to implement the Tiprasa agreement. The TIPRA Motha party, an alliance partner of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura, won 3,133 seats leaving 640 to BJP in the TTAADC village council that voted on September 28. Though 4,597 seats were supposed to go for polls under 587 village committees, voting took place in 2,950 seats as 1,644 seats were elected unopposed including 1,561 from TIPRA Motha party, 81 from BJP, one each from CPIM and an independent. Elections to the 28-seat TTAADC poll was held this April in which the TIPRA Motha party won 24 seats, reducing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) share to four seats, half of the eight seats that it had won in the last tribal council elections.
The five-year term of the elected village committees ended in 2021 but the election could not be conducted due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Debbarma said he would also address them.
BJP’s another ally, IPFT, won 20 seats while 138 seats were won by independent candidates. Opposition CPM and Congress won 58 and 10 seats respectively.
“I will not be in active politics from next month.
My father Maharaja Kirit Bikram Manikya always said that leave when you are on the top and not on the way down,” Debbarma said, adding that he never planned to join politics and had done so to fight for the rights of Tiprasa people.
