INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The BJP-IPFT alliance is set to maintain power in Tripura with leads in 32 out of 60 seats, as per the most recent readily
The CPM-led Left alliance, which likewise consisted of Congress, stopped working to remove the BJP in a state it ruled for over 25 years and
settled with just 12 seats, accoridng to the trends.Notably, the debutant TIPRA Motha, formed by royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya
Debbarman, published a remarkable efficiency in the elections, injuring the survey potential customers of both BJP and CPM
With BJP protecting a bulk on its own, the possibility of TIPRA Motha emerging as a kingmaker has been quashed for now
Who is Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman, the king who could not be kingmaker? * Pradyot Manikya Debbarman is the existing head of the
Tripuri royal household and is the titular king
* Born on July 4, 1978, Pradyot is the first boy of Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Debbarma, the 185th King of Tripura, and Maharani Bhibu
* He is the head of the Tipra Motha Party, likewise referred to as the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance - a regional
political party which was earlier a social organization
It contested 42 out of the 60 seats in the state in the 2023 elections
* However, Debbarmas political innings began a few years ago with the Congress
He resigned from the party in 2019 amidst reports of differences with Congresss then general secretary and northeast in charge Luizinho
* Two years ago, the Tipra Motha had swept the TTAADC elections, in which it bagged 18 of the 30 seats in the Sixth Schedule body
Prior to that, the tribal council had actually been ruled by the Left, which together with the Congress and IPFT, stopped working to open
its account in the April 2021 polls
* The Tipra Mothas poll slab was Greater Tipraland, a separate state for Tripuras native individuals, who were decreased to minority due to
uncontrolled influx from erstwhile East Bengal (Bangladesh)
According to the 2011 census, Tripuras population is 36.74 lakh, of which about one 3rd (11.6 lakh) is tribal
* Notably, the royal scion has actually received enormous assistance from the tribals in the state for his fight for Greater Tipraland,
which is practically similar to the need of BJPs ally, the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT)
* The Tipra Motha was born amid the agitation against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
