Tipra Motha Party founder and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma on Friday urged the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) to immediately constitute a monitoring committee to detect illegal immigrants entering the council’s jurisdiction.
Raising concerns over possible infiltration from neighbouring states, Pradyot said the issue should be taken seriously, especially in light of recent evictions of illegal settlers from Assam.
“I have requested the TTAADC to form an all-party monitoring committee to identify illegal immigrants entering the council areas. This committee should not function along political lines, but as a body committed to protecting the rights of our people,” he said.
Highlighting the broader implications of unchecked migration, Pradyot emphasized that such movement poses a threat to the demographic composition and indigenous identity of the region.
Earlier, on July 23, a nine-member delegation of the Tipra Motha Party, led by Pradyot, met with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to demand the implementation of a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Tripura.
The delegation submitted a memorandum to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, urging the ECI to detect, delete, and deport illegal immigrants from the electoral rolls.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Pradyot said, “We told the ECI that just like Bihar is conducting SIR, Tripura must do the same. Illegal migration cannot be allowed in Tripura or anywhere else in the Northeast.”
