Tripura's Secret Tie-Up Between BJP And TIPRA Motha Laid Bare

TIPRA founder Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma with supporters after a tripartite pact was signed among the Tipra Motha, the Tripura government and the Centre in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on March 3.

Till now, the relationship between the BJP and the TIPRA Motha was behind the curtains. This week, putting an end to all the speculations, the TIPRA Motha, leaving the post of the main Opposition party in the state assembly, joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government of Tripura. It has two ministers in Chief Minister Manik Saha’s council of ministers. Animesh Debbarma, who resigned from his post as the Leader of the Opposition, took oath as a cabinet minister, while