General secretary of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), Jagadish Debbarma, said: “During a meeting on December 12 with Union home minister Amit Shah, we forwarded a demand for keeping Tripura out of the purview of the CAA. Shah assured that he would look into concerns of the indigenous people of the state and said he would hold a meeting with us again. We will launch our movement again.”The JMACAB, comprises three indigenous political parties — Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), National Conference of Tripura (NCT), Tipraland State Party (TSP) — tribal social organisations such as the Borok People Human Rights Organisation (BPHRO) besides tribal students’ organisations and NGOs. “We will continue our movement till our last breath,” Debbarma told this correspondent. “We are demanding to scrap this Act in the state, ” he added.

Source: The Telegraph December 30, 2019 20:37 UTC