Members of the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), Tripura’s main Opposition party, are scheduled to block National Highway 8 — the State’s lifeline — on Wednesday to protest the Centre’s delay in providing constitutional solutions to the issues of the indigenous communities.
The blockade is likely to coincide with an indefinite hunger strike to be launched by TMP chairman Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma at Tripura West district’s Hatai Kotor, formerly Baramura.
Mr. Debbarma, who returned to the State’s capital Agartala on Monday night after a meeting with Home Ministry officials in Delhi, said the TMP and Tripura’s indigenous people want a written and not verbal assurance from the Centre for fulfilling their demands.
