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, but can you believed our corrupted Indigenous leaders for better Tipra? Example Jarkhand & Chatissgarh.
Will there be full swing development such as setting up school & colleges? ADC doesn't have many..!
CM post alone can’t give us power, its development that can boost our living status. Is there anyone who really loves to work for the people?
CPIM tribal leaders are equally responsible for present situation. If they had pressured for more power to ADC such situation never had been arises. But all those members are dumped robot worker of Bengali leader.
We can still come-up with more power to ADC. Such as creation of ADC education Board, universities, direct fund from center, power to ADC area on Natural Resources that fall under ADC area, tourism Department etc. ADC has lots of power, the only reason we can’t see the actual power is be caused of our corrupted leaders. That’s the reason behind it. It’s the money they speak & worked for, even Tipraland won’t serve any benefit if this corrupted leaders exist in our system.
BY ARABINDU DEBBARMA
Very well stated. True that our corrupted heart is the culprit and we ourselves are the sole reason for our downfall. True, that our ADC, given a fully-fledged power with direct fund from the central government and few couple of good leaders can easily change the scenario of our people drastically.
ReplyDeleteMost of the issues can be overcome by educating our people and young minds in English medium. If 10 to 15 English Medium Schools (atleast till 10+2 standard, directly affiliated to Central Boards Undertaking) could be set up in ADC to accommodate ALL our tribal students for free or with minimal fees, then in a span of 15 to 20 years, we would be best state in our country. Education is the backbone for awareness. Also, given the full power we can build a good infrastructure for sports, health centres, tourisms and other important fields.
True that all these can be achieved by full functioning of ADC. However, mathematically speaking, if "Separate state" is a super set then "TTAADC" is its subset. In receiving Separate state, there is more room for creating most opportunities than in receiving full power of ADC, though in both the cases we need good leaders. Adding to it the saying goes "Aim for the stars so that at least you may land on the moon". If we demand for Tipraland (star), we may be at least settled with full empowerment of ADC(moon). And if we demand for ADC as a star, what would be our moon..???
Also, from human psychological point of view, had we started the Movement demanding only for the full empowerment of ADC, it wouldn’t have gained so much attention both in the state and country level. Most of our common people, with very less formal education wouldn't have been be able to relate much and hence they wouldn't be as active as they are now. It is very much essential to create a hype.
Furthermore, if only ADC is empowered, then there is very less possibilty to be able to owned the TOTAL control over our forest, gas and other Industries as we would be under the state government, though partially it is possible. Land deprivation issues could not be solved without new policies, as it is evident that even now non-tribal people are residing in our ADC area. So in one way or the other, non-tribal people will always find some way to fool our innocent tribals.
Dear Arabindu sir, I totally agree that, it is also possible that we might fight among tribes, once separate state is achieved. But if proper planning and implemention is done for the sincere development of our people of all tribes, then the probability is almost nill for further split or fight or insurgencies. Moreover, our tribal population is very few. So I believe we can bring a drastic change once a separate state is achieved. It is always better to be optimistic than being a pessimistic
Perhaps "Separate State" is not the only last step for our survival, but obviously a better option than the full empowerment of ADC. Thank you so much...Jai Tipraland.
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