‘Tipra Motha’ faction to file case in high court for identification and deportation of ‘foreign nationals’

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 17, 2025

An important faction of ‘Tipra Motha’ led by senior party leader and incumbent MLA Ranjit Debbarma is preparing to file a case in high court of Tripura seeking an order on identification and deporatation of ‘foreign nationals’. Sources from ‘Tipra Motha’ said that Ranjit has his close associates held a consultation over the issue with a Delhi based senior supreme court advocate to file a case in supreme court but the advocate is reported to have advise his clients to first move the high court .Accordingly a drive is on to raise a fund of Rs 1 crore for the court battle and the petition is likely to be filed soon. However the case will not be filed in the name of ‘Tipra Motha’ but on behalf of an NGO or private association that will come up soon under a new banner. Sources however said that there is a difference of opinion over the cut off date that will be sought to be set by the court for identifying and deporting ‘foreign nationals’ . Even though Ranjit and his associates want the cut off date of October 15 1949 for deportation the government of India , on the basis of the Indira-Mujib pact of 1974 , had officially set the date of March 25 1971 as the cut-off date for granting citizenship. Besides, the enactment of citizenship amendment act in 2019 had set a new cut-off date of December 31 2014 for granting citizenship to evacuees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanisthan.A deep deliberation is now on within the ‘Tipra Motha’ faction over the cut off date that will be demanded from the court in view of the fact that the Centre’s new cut-off date of December 31 2014 is not applicable to Tripura and other states of northeast. Sources said that the matter will be settled soon through discussion within the new forum and then the case will be filed in high court . Besides, another ticklish point that worries the ginger group within ‘Motha’ is the limited support available to the party from among a small section of Bengali Hindus and Muslims living in the interior areas of the state and the presence of a large number of Chakma and other tribal infiltrators who came from the troubled Chittagong hill-tracts of Bangladesh and settled down in the state.

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