Agartala, Nov 09, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Agartala Nov 09: Resigning from the post of IPFT MLA, Mevar Kumar Jamatia on Wednesday joined Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman’s TIPRA Motha.
TIPRA Motha Chairman Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman officially announced the same amid a press meet.
Addressing the press Pradyot said, “Mevar has been associated with me and my family for long time, despite of the fact where we supported parties of different ideologies, we always maintained decorum”.
Stressing on the point of “Thansa”, Pradyot said, “We are fighting for our survival and our existence and the dream of Greater Tipra Land can be achieved only if we fight unitedly”.
Wlcoming Mevar Kumar Jamatia to the party, Pradyot said, “Our fight for our people will be more strong from now”.
Pradyut further announced, Chandan Tripura, Central Committee member of Gana Mukti Parishad and Rabidan Tripura from BJPs Jana Jati Morcha are also joined the TIPRA Motha with thousands of other voters at the mega rally in Manu Bazaar on Tuesday.
Talking to the reporters, Mevar Kumar Jamatia said, “I have been in social service for long years and later joined politics only for the sake of people’s welfare. I always cried for unity because I always believe that united we stand, divided we fall”.
“For the past four years, I was the minister for Tribal Welfare, Forest and Fisheries but could not meet the aspirations of the people, and it that prompted me to take the decision”, he added.
Jamatia said the Centre had constituted a high-level committee for socio-economic-linguistic development of the indigenous people after the 2018 assembly elections. “We had meetings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and tried to get the recommendations of the committee, but nothing yielded in the last four-and-a-half years,” he claimed.
Notably, Jamatia is the third MLA of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the BJP, to resign ahead of the next year’s assembly elections in the state.
Jamatia, the former general secretary of the IPFT, was “sidelined” for his tiff with party chief NC Debbarma, who is at present the state’s minister for revenue and forest.
He was also dropped from the state cabinet in March, and another IPFT MLA, Prem Kumar Reang, was made a minister.
However, despite the resignation of Jamatia, the BJP has an absolute majority in the 60-member assembly with 34 legislators.
The opposition CPI(M) has 15 MLAs and the Congress has one MLA.