Tipraland
Tipraland is the name of a proposed state in India, proposed by the Tipra people of Tripura. The Twipra Kingdom is a former country which was ruled by 184 Tripuri/Tipra kings. The last king was Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Debbarma. After his death in 1946, Twipra kingdom joined India as a Union Territory on 15 October 1949 under the name Tripura, and later achieved statehood. Tipraland:- With the announcement of Telangana, various community of India got fresh oxygen to fight for the homeland, an aspiration that will uplift their community and status in India, a country where only the voice of Majority, high class, and wealthy business community is heard. With the creation of Telangana, a ray of hope had reached to the corner of Indian state Tripura for the creation of Tipraland, to save the indigenous community from refugee Bangladeshi who were taking all the advantage of development depriving the local community. Tripura is India's third smallest state with an area-10000 s.km. However the new Tipraland would be around 7000 s.km ¾ of the total which is also present Autonomous district council of Tripura (TTAADC). Right from the beginning Tripura joining with India, there is a section of local communities (Tripuris, Manipuris, Muslim) who were unhappy with the decision of the Queen Maharani Kanchan Prabha Devi to join ‘Republic of India’. Their main concerns were the non-native Hindu Bengali's who were infiltrating to Tripura, will take over them in term of administration & policy-making. This is what actually happen today from CM post to all other administrative post is filled by Hindu Bengali Refugees. Sources had found that before the Death of Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya want to join India, was a baseless allegation. He wanted to give more power to the citizen not to join India. However after his death, his decision & dream was not fulfilled by royal members. Instead they thought to join India. It also may be for the safety of the family as well as money that will be provided to the royal family as allowance, also power in politics if they joined the Indian Congress. The royal families has been to political power including Home minister post to MP, however instead of solving the refugee problem, they encouraged them by giving land & property. Who can forget the shameless act of permitting ‘land cooperatives’ like the Swasti Samity in north Tripura’ to Bengali refugees removing the Reangs from their ancestral home. Such an wicked think has happen under the leadership of congress & royal family who were under congress government in Tripura. Because of vote bank, this actually happen in our state. The policy was latter adopted by educated Tripuris as vote bank. When Indian government try to replaced few Bengali refuges into Rajasthan to maintain the majority status of Tribal's in Tripura, Dasharath Debbarma & co. did Fasting with the slogan ‘Pahari-Bengali bhai bhai’ and India govt. had to stop the idea of replacement. Thinking to form a Left govt. in Tripura with the help of Bengali refugee vote bank, Dasharath finally win the election-1978, however the irony & pondering of ‘pahari-bangali bhaib hai’ theory failed when Dasharath Debbarma was not given the CM post. Leading to sharp fall out of CPIM power in next general election under the leadership of Nripen Chakarborty after losing vote from the Indigenous community who were upset after not seeing Dasharath Debbarma as chief minister whom they considered as ‘crown-less king of Tripura’. In 1993 CPIM win the election after Dasharath was announced for the post of CM, though they won the election & Dasharath become CM, the scar from the heart didn't heal and there had always been difference between Tripuris & Bengali's, communal clash, higher insurgencies etc etc. the only reason was refugees can’t be trusted any more. With the policy of changing names of historical places, hills & rivers, villages & towns, encroachment of ADC land, and finally giving out land to non-tribal’s in ADC area under forest right bill-has brought more non-confidence to the indigenous people forcing them to demand a separate homeland for their survival who constitute only 1 million of the 3.7 million population(31%). Thus I think another 3000 s.km is a free gift to Refugees…! India has never thought for the welfare of North-Eastern states in the past or Present.
this is the reason why they give land to Bangladesh ‘chakhla-rasanabad’ part of Tripura, no strict rule for Bangladesh refugees neither in any part of northeast India. If India had been controlling it chakhala-rosanabad, neither the Bengalis had been to be refugee. Also no Bengalis has right to clam themselves as ‘people of Tripura kingdom’. If they had considered it before, they could have been objected while ceding from Tripura to Bangladesh then Pakistan. Their mind was wicked during those time, they want to form a Bengali speaking Nation, doesn't want to be controlled by a tripuri king, this could be the actually answered is..!However after forming Islamic Bangladesh country, they were kicked out from their homeland, and took refugee to Tripura and now they want people to considered them as ‘Tripurabashi’ which is unacceptable at all…!!!!! If Tripura is divided one can’t forgive India-Royal family-CPIM and all other party who only want to dominate the indigenous people for their vote bank….! Can anyone tell we will have fair future in Tipraland, that their won’t by Insurgency, no fight for ADC among Reang, Tripura, Jamatia groups..! Things will be more worse than now, people will feel safe to stay outside Tipraland, like the manipuris of Manipur, who can never solved out problems with the hill Nagas & kukis. Bandh-extortion-killing is what everyday happen in Manipur. If we got Tipraland all natural product such as Gas, Rubber and forest products will come into Tipraland, including the Industrial area, thus development can be assured.(Bidhyachandrapara)
many Bengali Hindus and Muslims immigrated to Tripura, and slowly took political power from the Tipras. As the political and economic power shifted to the immigrants, the very existence of the Tipra people and their culture was jeopardized.
The indigenous Tipra people demanded an autonomous district, which they finally achieved on 23 March 1979. However, the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) was unable to protect the rights of the indigenous Tipra and other tribal communities. The Tipra people feel it has become clear that without full governmental power, the indigenous Tipra people cannot survive. Thus the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, a regional political party under the leadership of N.C. Debbarma, has advocated for converting the TTAADC area into a full-fledged state.