Tag: IPFT

BJP, IPFT to continue alliance in Tripura; IPFT to contest five seats

The BJP also released a list of candidates for 54 of the state's 60 seats, leaving five for IPFT.

January 29, 2023

All parties except BJP demand rescheduling of Tripura panchayat polls

The IPFT and the Congress also separately urged the election commission to reschedule the panchayat polls "to uphold democracy in the rural areas".

September 14, 2018

Ripple effect

The National Register of Citizens, if implemented in Tripura, should be done carefully where there is a clear line of difference between illegal immigrants and refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan.

September 10, 2018

Newly elected BJP-IPFT legislators to meet in Tripura today

Newly-elected MLAs of BJP-IPFT alliance, which stormed to power in Tripura, will on Tuesday  deliberate upon the various aspects of government formation in the presence of central observers — Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Jual Oram. Gadkari and Oram, who were appointed as central observers by the Parliamentary Board of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

March 6, 2018

IPFT women’s wing to field candidates in 20 seats of Tripura

The women’s wing of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura has decided to nominate women candidates in all 20 constituencies reserved for Scheduled Tribes in the state to protest against its parent body’s move to field only male nominees. The BJP and IPFT have forged an alliance for elections to the 60-member House in Tripura...

January 29, 2018

BJP ‘almost’ ties up with Tripura tribal faction

BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said his party has almost clinched an alliance with the NC Debbarma faction of the IPFT, a leading tribal group in Tripura. “We are going to have pre-poll alliance with some local groups in Tripura to overthrow the Left government. Yesterday (Thursday) night we had a meeting with...

January 19, 2018

Senior journalist KJ Singh, mother found dead in Mohali

Senior journalist KJ Singh and his 92-year-old mother were found dead at their residence in Mohali, police said on Saturday. “There was injury marks on their necks,” Mohali Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Alam Vijay Singh said. Investigations are underway, police said. Singh has worked with The Tribune newspaper, The Indian Express and The Time...

September 23, 2017

Tripura journalist murder: 4 IPFT members arrested

Police arrested four members of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) in connection with the incidents of violence and the death of a journalist, Shantanu Bhowmik, in Tripura on Thursday. According to sources, Superintendent of Police (SP) Avijit Saptarshi said, “Sixteen police personnel were injured. Two vehicles were damaged by the IPFT activists at...

September 21, 2017

CPI-M condemns ‘silencing’ of Tripura scribe

  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today condemned the killing of a journalist in Tripura saying it shows a clear pattern of “silencing” of progressive journalists. In a statement here, the CPI(M) Politburo accused “BJP-backed IPFT (Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura) miscreants” for the killing of Santanu Bhowmick and demanded that the culprits be...

September 21, 2017

Tripura journalist last rites carried out amidst prohibitory orders

Funeral procession of video journalist Shantanu Bhowmik was carried out in Agartala on Thursday amid prohibitory orders. Shantanu Bhowmik was allegedly killed while he was covering clashes between the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and the Tripura Rajaer Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (TRUGP) in Mandai, in West Tripura. Section 144 of CrPC was imposed in...

September 21, 2017