Tipra Motha to organise protest march against Bangladeshi infiltration on July 7

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 5, 2025

With the ADC election less than a year away and with resentment among tribal masses running high the Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore seems bent upon weaponising the sensitive issue of infiltration from Bangladesh. Even though infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh, reflected in changing demographic profile of a number of states including Assam and West Bengal, has been a live and burning issue over the past many decades the central government has already waked up to the issue , as evident from the current deportation drive .

But the Tipra Motha has chosen the issue to deflect criticism of failure on multiple fronts as well as to launch a warm-up exercise in the run-up to the ADC elections . As part of the planned exercise the ‘Motha’ leadership will organise a ‘non-political’ protest march through Agartala on July 7. The protest march to be formally green-signalled by ‘Motha’ chairman Pradyot Kishore will move through main city thoroughfares of Agartala and converge on the Swami Vibekananda ground where a rally will be addressed by eminent personalities. Announcing this in an interaction with the media the Tipra Motha MLA Ranjit Debbarma said that at least 5 thousand people will take part in the protest march and the rally at the end of it.

Meanwhile, Tipra Motha organised a rally today in the North Gate area of Agartala and a march to Delhi to protest the failure of state and central government in checking infiltration from across Bangladesh. Whether those taking part in the ‘Pada Yatra’ (march on foot) will walk all the way to Delhi was not made clear. But the leader of Tipra Motha David Murasing said that both the state and central government had miserably failed to take effective steps to check ceaseless infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into Tripura from across the border. David said that the Motha’s participants in the ‘Pada Yatra’ will convey a message to the central government in Delhi that the infiltrators have been eating into the vital resources of the state at the cost of the local people and infiltration must be stopped totally . “The indigenous people here will lose their identity and a lot of struggles in the past on the issue have not yielded any result ; we will urge upon the central government to take foolproof measures to stop infiltration” said David Mursing.

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