NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, Nov 16 (TIWN): Congress demanded to elevate Tripura ADC to Territorial Council today. As the ADC Election is ahead, Congress party has cleared its stands on the indigenous issues and indigenous populated ADC’s demands. In a press conference, former MLA Rajeswar Debbarma and former MLA Subal Bhowmik have told media about the agenda of the Congress for the ADC Election. Addressing media, Rajeswar Debbarma said, “Congress is strict to its all stands for the indigenous people which it said earlier. We demand more power to ADC so that various developments can take place. Education sectors should grow fast and Medical College to other Colleges may build there”. Leader Subal Bhowmik said, “Congress always was and will be against Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). We also demand the ADC election must be conducted by the Election Commission of India but not by State Election Commission”. Subal Bhowmik further added, “In Tripura the ADC Election is controlled by State Election Commission but it should not be”.“We want to know what is the status of BJP about Kokborok language’s script. Indigenous people demand the Roman script whereas the BJP wants Hindi script. The former CPI-M Govt wanted a Bengali script. But Congress now demands a Roman script for the indigenous people”, said Subal Bhowmik.

https://youtu.be/90jCGVlMPEY Click TIWN YouTube Link to see Congress press meet. Congress leader Rajeswar Debbarma demands direct funding, more power to the ADC. TIWN Video Nov 16, 2019

Subal Bhowmik added, “In Tripura the ADC Election is controlled by State Election Commission but it should not be”.

https://youtu.be/XplaiEXUt5I  Click TIWN YouTube Link. Congress demands Election Commission of India to control ADC Election, not State Election Commission. TIWN Video Nov 16, 2019

https://youtu.be/cbrxrf3iAvo Click TIWN YouTube Link. Congress demanded increase of elected and nominated members in the ADC at double & Introduction of Roman script as Kokborok alphabet. TIWN Video Nov 16, 2019

Congress also demanded increase of elected and nominated members in the ADC at double. Thus now the numbers of elected members are 28 whereas Congress is demanding 56 and numbers of nominated members are now 2 which will be 4 according to Congress’s demand.

The Congress also demanded various other demands as implementation of Article 275 and Article 280 of the constitution of India for “economical upliftment of the indigenous people”.

https://youtu.be/vt_qHiIxl88 Click TIWN YouTube Link. Congress demanded implementation of Article 275 and Article 280 of the constitution of India for Tripura ADC areas.TIWN Video Nov 16, 2019