The
Chief Minister of Tripura Mr. Manik Sarkar held public meeting on 11th
February,2016 at Damcherra (near Tribal Rest house) in view of the ensuing
General Election to the TTAADC Village Committees-2016. The speech of Mr.
Sarkar was reported in the local daily
“Pratibadi Kalam” on 12th February, 2016. The meeting was amongst
others attended by Shri Rajendra Reang, Executive Member and Member of Tripura
Legislative Assembly; Shri Rajendra Reang, Member of Tripura Tribal Areas
Autonomous District Council and veteran local communist leader Mr. Gandhasingh
Rupini. The Chief Minister appealed the people of the area to prevent the
youths from falling in to Tipraland
Trap. Mr. Sarkar alleged that the Congress, Tripura Upajati Juba Samity(TUJS)
which is presently Indigenous National Party of Tripura(INPT), Indigenous
People’s Front of Tripura(IPFT) and Tipraland State Party(TSP) were corrupt and
looted the public fund when in power. It is noteworthy that Tipraland State
Party(TSP) has been formed in October, 2015 was never in any way form any sort
of Government or local self Government till date. This political party has been formed with
sole objective of a demand on elevation of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District
Council(TTAADC) in to a full fledged “Tipraland”
State under Article 2 & 3 of the Constitution of India due one reason that
the Tipperahs including other 18 tribes have been reduced to microscopic
minority and facing extinction for the reasons that about 824000 refugees sheltered in Tripura (
erstwhile name Tipperah ) since India attained independence on 15th
August, 1947 and till 1971. It is to be noted that Tripura merged with India on
15th October, 1949. The intrusion from erstwhile East Pakistan which
is presently Bangladesh continues uninterrupted day till date. If these trends
of intrusion continue, one could be rest assured the sons of the soil will
certainly extinct from the face of this planet earth.
Mr.
Sarkar, the Chief Minister of Tripura further said, “ 184 Kings of Tripura who
belongs to the same race did do anything for the development of his people or
subjects”. The most important fact is even if one concludes for a logic that
the kings did nothing for his subjects ( although many things were done ) but
they left a territory for his subjects to live on even though the kingship was
no more. A demarcated territory is a mandatory component for any particular
race that they should claim for their identity which the 184 kings had given to
his subjects. The refugees who had been
sheltered following the partition of India and until birth of Bangladesh; is in
Tripura(Tipperah). Yet Mr. Manik Sarkar could make a such proposition that 184
kings of Tripura did nothing for his subjects. The kings of Tripura handed down
a territory for his subjects which had also sheltered wretched refugees of East
Bengal which became East Pakistan after partition of India and sheltered even
who turn to be refugees as the birth of Bangladesh took place. The soil on
which Mr. Manik Sarkar is stepping on is of 184 kings of Tripura. Let us
imagine for a moment that there was no sovereign country called Tipperah or
Tripura in the past and no kings ruled over it. As a principle of partition of
India in 1947, Would it be with Pakistan or India? Remember that this is an
imagination. The people of Chittagong Hill Tracts wanted to be with India but
Redcliff Commission had made it with Pakistan in spite of the fact that 97% of
the population of it was non-Muslims at
the time of Partition of India. Therefore, imagination of not having ruled over
Tripura or non-existence of Tripura did not ensure Tripura would be with India.
If Tripura would have been part of Pakistan, it would have been part of
Bangladesh today. These wretched refugees would not have found a place like
Tripura for a shelter. The people of Tripura who were sons of soil had also
demanded their rehabilitation on humanitarian ground. The demand for Tipraland
State has been termed by the Chief Minister Mr. Manik Sarkar as Tipraland Trap.
Why should it be called a trap? Is not the demand in conformity with the
Article 2 and 3 of the Constitution of India? It is Constitutional without any
iota of doubt. Then why is it called a trap? Are we not citizen of India to
demand Tipraland under the Constitution? This tentamounts that members of
Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) do not have faith in the
Constitution. They intend to usher gradually the sons of soil of Tripura in to
extinction. The extinction of the race Tipperah including other 18 tribes be
ascertained first and then development activities can take place for them even
later. When extinction is endangering them the development activities can
hardly take place. It is to be noted that development activities can not
prevent extinction. The example of Andaman where development activities have
taken place but the sons of soil like Jarwa and Bo are extict for which neither
CPI(M), INC or BJP nor any other regional parties have any political agenda so
that they will not extinct. No political party or organization will do it. It
is for a few committed members of the
extinct races/tribes who should come forward for their own rescue. The
political parties come for their political gains but not for prevention of
extinction of a race for extinction is not in their political agenda.
Communist
Party of India (Marxist) is against the Demand for Tipraland for race and tribes who are struggling for their
existence and the demand is within the parameter of the Constitution
of India. The Chief Minister of Tripura made a statement in the floor of the
Tripura Legislative Assembly on 8th January, 2016, “ Tipraland is
not unconstitutional”. It is constitutional because the provision under
Article 2 & 3; is already there. Tipraland is not unconstitutional just because
Mr. Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister, stated in the floor of Tripura Legislative
Assembly. The provision is within the framework of the Constitution of India.
It sounds as if the Chief Minister stated, it is there in the constitution. It
is there in the Constitution of India right from the Constitution of India that
was adopted and dedicated to the nation on 26th January, 1950. The
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
including the Chief Minister, Tripura have been campaigning against Tipraland
Demand since 2009 from the year in which it was began. Their campaign is – the demand is of “separatists”; “communals” and
against “social integration and communal harmony”. Who are separatists? Those
who demand to secede a territory from Indian Union are secessionists. The demand for
elevation of TTAADC to Tipraland under Article 2 and 3 within the framework of
Indian Constitution can not be defined
as separation from Indian Union as it is not establishing a sovereign country.
It has to be passed by the both houses of the Indian Parliament. The Parliament
is the authority to grant statehood not the Tripura Legislative Assembly. The
land in Tripura is the land of the Government of India; the power and
legislative authority as conferred by the Constitution of India. Why are people who demand it termed to be
communal? As many as 31 States are there in India. They had been granted
statehood according to the same provision of the Constitution. In all other
cases, the communality cards are not played. The demand for statehood is the
Tipperahs and other tribes are facing extinction. This is on question of
extinction. The people of the said communities are raising their voices but to
suppressed them a conspiracy is hatched and communal cards are being surfaced
by carefully to distance them from their legitimate demand on Tipraland State.
The Government of India has a responsibility to protect the dying(extinct)
communities as Tripura merged with India for all aspects protection from
extinction. Tripura State did not merge on 15th October, 1949 by signing
agreements which would lead them to extinct. The sons of soil were un-communal
as they had demanded the rehabilitation of refugees whey were wandering for a
shelter. Communality has no place in Tipperah societies. Like any other races
and tribes in India ; there should be space for empowering them with
self-governance under the Article 2 and 3 of the constitution of India. Terming
and branding them as “Separatists”; “Communals” is a conspiracy in preventing
their democratic rights and fundamental rights under the Constitution. It leads
to the connotation that they have been reduced to second class citizen of India
which the Tipperahs and other tribes do not consider that such thing is not
taking place in India and they have full faith in the Constitution. Every
cloud has a silver lining.
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