AGARTALA, January 12 (TIWN): Just ahead of the TTAADC election Tribal-based Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) organized a crucial central working committee meeting at Agartala Press Club, here today.

 Taking to TIWN today INPT General Secretary Jagadish Debbarma said that in the meeting we have decided to launch massive programme at community level for strengthening the party base in hilly areas and go ahead with individual entity.

He however, pointed out that “alliance with Congress in past one and a half-decades did not yield any positive result for INPT, rather weakened their own programme.”
Despite having serious discontent among the tribals on left front government in Tripura for past 22 years, opposition could not even manage to secure their victory in all 20 tribal dominated assembly constituencies in the 60-member House because of leadership crisis and lack of commitment to public sufferings, he maintained.
“INPT has acceptability among the tribals and even the leftists because the party, since beginning, has been fighting for establishment of rights and talks about the sufferings of the tribal community,” Debbarma said, adding that since the party did not fight alone, people voted for CPI-M.
“More power to ADC includes financial autonomy and direct funding to ADC by the central government, to include Kokborok in 8th schedule of the Constitution and proper implementation of tribal development program besides, upgradation of social infrastructure in tribal infested hilly areas to remove the sense of isolation,” Debbarma mentioned. 

The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) was formed under Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution in 1987 to protect ad safeguard interest of people from the recognized tribal communities. The district council currently houses 19 indigenous communities. It covers 67 percent of the territorial area of the state.