Youth Tipra Federation (YTF) – the youth wing of the Tipra Motha – held a protest rally opposing the development of an embankment by Bangladesh close to the worldwide border in South Tripura district on Monday.
The rally began from Belonia township and went as much as the Bankarbazar space near the border, the place it was stopped by Border Safety Pressure (BSF) personnel.
The protesters claimed that Bangladesh has constructed an embankment on the River Muhuri inside 150 yards of the worldwide border in violation of the 1974 Indira-Mujib pact. Additionally they claimed that one other embankment had been illegally constructed by Bangladesh and added that each one this was being finished on the behest of Pakistan and China.
The protesters raised slogans in opposition to Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor of the interim authorities in Bangladesh, for claiming that Northeast India was landlocked and projecting Bangladesh as “the one guardians of the ocean” within the Bay of Bengal.
Chatting with reporters, YTF chief David Murasingh stated, “We gave Bangladesh its independence. Tripura’s demography has modified attributable to that as nicely. A number of lands belonging to Hindu Bengalis are nonetheless mendacity there (Bangladesh)… Whereas terrorist assaults are being launched on Indians (at Pahalgam) in Kashmir on the western frontier, Bangladesh is creating an embankment by violating worldwide border agreements proper alongside the border on the japanese frontier. It is a menace to us.”
The protesters raised slogans in opposition to Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor of the interim authorities in Bangladesh (Categorical Picture)
Citing the alleged assault on actor Saif Ali Khan by a Bangladeshi infiltrator in Mumbai final 12 months, Murasingh stated, “They (a Bangladeshi nationwide) stabbed him (Saif Ali Khan), attempting to kill him… they’re changing into terrorists. They arrive to Tripura, Kolkata, Assam, and so forth. After attacking, they attempt to return to Bangladesh. We wish to warn that this wouldn’t proceed for lengthy.”
Murasingh additionally claimed YTF activists alone will probably be sufficient to reclaim land in Bangladesh that belonged to the erstwhile royal kingdom of Tripura.
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“… Tripura’s land like Chittagong, the place the Indian Tricolour was flown for 3 days after Independence, will probably be reclaimed. This land was given to the then East Pakistan by forgery. Indigenous and Hindu individuals are being tortured, raped there. There aren’t any human rights,” he stated.
Later within the day, Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma took to social media and wrote, “As we speak at Belonia, Tripura hundreds of our Warriors have been stopped by the BSF in any other case the unlawful building by Bangladesh would have been demolished. These are the youth of our Tiprasa all we want is a inexperienced sign, relaxation we are going to deal with!”
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