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TTAADC Election: Left Front Set for another Victory: Around 1000 voters abandoned INPT, IPFT and congress and joined CPI-M
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TTAADC Election: Left Front Set for another Victory: Around 1000 voters abandoned INPT, IPFT and congress and joined CPI-M
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AGARTALA, April 21 (TIWN): The Left Front Committee appealed the voters to make victorious of all Left Front candidates in Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election with huge margin to maintain peace, harmony and stability and to extend democracy by maintaining legacy of development. According to a highly placed source of Melarmath, recently about 1000 voters abandoned INPT, IPFT and congress and supported CPI-M. CPI-M will win all the 28 seats of Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections which will be held on May 03. In the last ADC election in 2010, Left Front won all the 28 seats with average 63 percent of total valid votes. Of the 28 seats, Left Front polled more than 60 percent votes in 22 seats and more than 50 percent in five and in only one seat Left Front bagged less than 50 percent votes. Congress, the main contender in the election, polled only 21.16 percent of the valid votes. Other parties, namely INPT, BJP, AITC, IPFT and NCT etc., polled marginally in the election. This time, apart from the Left Front and Congress, other parties in the fray are BJP, INPT and IPFT etc. Though all the anti-Left opposition parties are at present posing to contest separately, all of them are keen to fight the Left unitedly anticipating their miserable outcome in the results.

The Left Front is well ahead of the opposition parties in campaign as well as in other preparations. On March 27, Left Front leaders declared the list of candidates in a crowded press conference. Sharing of seats among the Left Front partners this time is same as earlier. Of the 28 candidates, there are six new candidates including a woman. There are total three women candidates. Prominent leaders who were not nominated this time are Gajendra Tripura, Executive Member, who has been assigned with greater responsibility in the Party organisation and Chairman of the TTAADC Mongsaji Mog who opted to be relieved because of his ailing health. The Left Front appealed to the people to return its candidates in all the seats with greater margin.

The first Left Front government under Nripen Chakraborty immediately after assuming office in 1978 initiated the process for constitution of the Tribal Autonomous District Council under the Sixth Schedule which the then Morarji Desai-led Janata Party government at the Centre denied outright. He then suggested creating such an ADC under the 7th Schedule which is possible by a state act. The Left Front government formed the ADC under the 7th Schedule in end of 1979 and were preparing for holding election amidst stiff resistance of Amara Bangali group, most of whose followers were Congress supporters.

TUJS, the parent organisation of the present two opposition tribal parties namely INPT and IPFT, also opposed TTAADC under the 7th Schedule with the sole objective to destabilise the Left Front government. They demanded TTAADC under the 6th Schedule. To stall election to TTAADC, Amara Bangali put up roadblocks in various parts of the state, while TUJS made a most provocative call for market boycott throughout the state demanding deportation of all Bengalis settled in the state since its accession to Indian Union.

 TUJS made this call most calculatedly to create hostility between tribals and non-tribals, setting aside their core demand for TTAADC under the 6th Schedule. That resulted in June 1980 disturbances between tribals and non-tribals in large parts of the state. The Left Front government most meticulously took control of the situation and restored peace within a short time. Subsequently the election was held in 1982 which was won by the Left Front. Completely alienated from the tribal masses, the then Congress leadership realised it is necessary to have an alliance with TUJS to fight the Left Front in election.

Later, the central government under India Gandhi bowed down to the pressure of the democratic movement to pass a Constitutional Amendment providing constitution of TTADC under the 6th Schedule in 1985.

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