To protest the broad day­light mur­der of Tripura State Ri­fles per­son­nel Sube­dar Mark Hasin Ja­ma­tia -As­sis­tant Com­man­dant and Nayak Sube­dar Ki­ran Ku­mar Ja­ma­tia by a Bangladeshi ri­fle­man of TSR -Sukanta Das, the Tripura Peo­ple’s Front has called for a one-day Tripura Bandh on 6 De­cem­ber. Tripura Peo­ple’s Front leader Patal Kanya Ja­ma­tia has ap­pealed to the Twiprassa peo­ple to en­sure a full All-Tripura Bandh “so that the spirit and as­pi­ra­tions are known to the world and truth will fall on the deaf ears of the gov­ern­ment of In­dia and Tripura.” WSN re­ports.

The Tripura Peo­ple’s Front, which re­cently an­nounced that it had de­cided to be­come a po­lit­i­cal party to fight for the rights of the Twiprasa in­dige­nous Borok peo­ple, has strongly con­demned the killing of two se­cu­rity per­son­nel who were of in­dige­nous ori­gin, early morn­ing yes­ter­day within a po­lice com­plex.

Party leader Patal Kanya Ja­ma­tia, speak­ing to the me­dia from Delhi, where she has come for a protest demon­stra­tion on 6 De­cem­ber, has said, “Whose duty is to pro­tect the se­cu­rity of the peo­ple -if the se­cu­rity staff is not safe, then how will they pro­tect the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion? What more can be said about the tragedy of Tripura to­day? What is most dis­turb­ing is that this is not the story of to­day, it is part of the con­tin­u­ing litany of the last 72 years. The Twiprassa Borok peo­ple are liv­ing the life of vic­tims of state ter­ror in one form or an­other.” 

A dev­as­tated Patal Kanya Ja­ma­tia on her YouTube broad­cast said, “I am in tears for my peo­ple. The rea­son be­ing ad­vanced by the ad­min­is­tra­tion that the at­tack was re­lated to the ju­nior seek­ing leave is fake and false. This is the mur­der of our peo­ple and we will not take this ly­ing down. The guilty must be court-mar­tialled and there should be quick jus­tice. Of course, the full ends of jus­tice will be served when the cul­prit is brought to book through an im­me­di­ate trial.”

“We will bring Tripura to a halt on 6 De­cem­ber 2021 against these mur­ders and the cli­mate of rape, gang rape, tor­ture and ha­rass­ment.”

“If a ri­fle­man can have the guts to kill two of his su­pe­ri­ors is a clear in­di­ca­tion of how much power the Bangladeshis are wield­ing in the state ma­chin­ery. The pre­sent BJP gov­ern­ment in Tripura has con­verted it into a po­lice state with the mantra of state ter­ror­ism at the hands of Bangladeshi in­fil­tra­tors in the ad­min­is­tra­tion and pub­lic life of the state.”

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, Patal Kanya Ja­ma­tia said, “We had de­manded the ouster of the BJP gov­ern­ment and im­po­si­tion of Pres­i­den­t’s rule in Tripura for the main rea­son that the law and or­der sit­u­a­tion has de­te­ri­o­rated be­yond re­pair. The re­cent killings have proved this.”

De­nounc­ing the pal­try sum of Rs. 5 lakhs an­nounced as com­pen­sa­tion by the BJP chief min­is­ter Bi­plab Deb, the party state­ment said, “This amount is peanuts and the TPF re­jects it. The fam­i­lies of the vic­tims must be given ex­em­plary com­pen­sa­tion of Rs. 5 crores each and two jobs per fam­ily.  This is the least that the gov­ern­ment can do. 

Talk­ing his­tory, Patal Kanya listed two ear­lier in­ci­dents too.  She nar­rated that, Tripura Civil Ser­vices of­fi­cer Sukhram De­barma was killed by the Bangladeshi mafia in the cap­i­tal city Agar­tala -no­body was ac­cused, no­body was ar­rested and there was no jus­tice in the mat­ter. Sim­i­larly, TCS cadre of­fi­cer Sashimo­han De­barma was hanged in his room. No jus­tice was done and it was dis­missed as a sui­cide. 

Tak­ing a pot shot at the Tripura Motha lead­er­ship -known for its Greater Tipra­land de­mand, who have been talk­ing about cre­at­ing the fear of com­mu­nal ten­sion, Patal Kanya said, “the lead­er­ship of the Tripura Motha and BJP are talk­ing about cre­at­ing the fear of com­mu­nal ten­sion. It is time for the peo­ple of Tripura to re­spond to this fal­la­cious nar­ra­tive.”

“For 72 years, we are vic­tims of fake sui­cide, fake ac­ci­dents, fake in­ci­dents, rape, gang rape, mur­der and more but no jus­tice to the Twiprassa peo­ple.  No­body is tak­ing the right step. Even to­day, in­stead of talk­ing about jus­tice and peace, they are con­fus­ing the is­sue.”

Tripura Peo­ple Front vol­un­teers have been mov­ing the length and breadth of the state ap­peal­ing to the peo­ple of the state to ob­serve a 12-hour strike on 6 De­cem­ber 2021.