Looking Back – What Tripura gained and lost in 2019
AGARTALA | Dec 31, 2019:
The year 2019 was a bumpy ride for Tripura as the state witnessed many ugly and violent incidents and clashes erupting due to several reasons. Apart from this, the state witnessed many political developments and achievements.
2019 starts and ends with CAA (then CAB) Protests
The year 2019 started and ended with agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. Earlier this year, when the Central government tried to introduce the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the entire Northeast and its respective chief ministers had raised their opposition against the bill causing it to lapse in the RS.
And in December when the bill was re-introduced in the Parliament after deliberations with the CMs of Northeast including the other stakeholders, CAB was passed by both the Houses in the Parliament amid protests in the northeastern states. The people of Northeast continue to oppose the bill though their several MPs and CMs of the NE states including Tripura were in favour of the bill.
The protests against the CAA, which is still ongoing, has crippled normal life in Tripura as violence erupted and curfew imposed, internet suspended across the state in view of the agitations.
The passage of the bill in both the houses has angered the indigenous people of the state triggering massive agitations across the state. The royal scion of Tripura, Pradyot Manikya Deb Barman, who is strongly opposing the Act, had moved the Supreme Court on the issue citing that the Act violates the Instrument of Accession signed between the Government of India and the Maharani of Tripura in 1947.
YEAR IN REVIEW (Date/Month Wise)
Date 08.01.2019 : Brutal firing by Tripura Police injuring 6 Tiprasa youths in Madhab Bari. Law and Order paralyzed as shops and houses were torched in that area by alleged BJP activists.
Date 26.01.2019 : The famous art-music- flute (rosem) artist, Thanga Darlong of Tripura age 96, nominated for the esteemed Padma Shri Award as announced by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
Date 09.02.2019 : The Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the big statue of Tripura's last King Bikram Kishore Manikya (1923-1947) situated on the front side of the new terminal building.
Date 25.02.2019 : The AICC announced the name of royal scion Pradyot Kishore as the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president in place of the present incumbent Birajit Sinha for a better performance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
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Date 19.03.2019 : Tripura BJP vice-president Subal Bhowmik quit the party and joined Congress along with two other BJP leaders Prakash Das and Debasish Sen.
Date 23.05.2019 : BJP secured both seats in Lok Sabha Election 2019. Rebati Tripura bagged from East Tripura constituency and Pratima Bhoumik from West Tripura.
Date 31.05.2019 : Tripura Health Minister Sudip Roy Barman was removed from the state cabinet and port folios held by him were allocated to the state's Chief Minister and his deputy.
Date 24.09.2019 : Tripura Congress President Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman announced his resignation from the primary membership of the party citing his differences with the party high command as the reason behind the drastic step.
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Date 22.10.2019 : Former Tripura PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury, accused of being involved in a Rs 630 crore scam that allegedly took place during his tenure as PWD minister in Tripura, arrested by police.
Date 12.12.2019 : The delegation of IPFT (Indigenous People's Front of Tripura) and Joint Movement Against CAB met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed their concerns over Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
Date 24.12.2019 : Royal scion Pradyot Manikya Debbarman announced the formation of a new 'apolitical organization' – The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) with an objective to protect the rights of tribal communities in Tripura.
