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Tipra Motha Party (TMP) main Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma said his enactment would contention lone 25-30 seats successful the adjacent State Assembly elections.
In the 2023 Tripura Assembly elections, the TMP had contested successful 42 seats and had won successful 13 constituencies. The State Assembly has 60 seats.
In Tripura, 20 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs), portion tribal voters are a origin successful 22 much Assembly segments. The TMP has a beardown beingness successful the tribal areas of the State.
"If we had contested successful lone 20 Assembly segments, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) astir apt would not person returned to powerfulness for the 2nd word successful 2023. Now we person realised… In the coming Assembly elections, we volition contention successful 25-30 seats," Mr. Debbarma told the reporters astatine Kathalia-Mirza constituency of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) connected Thursday (December 11, 2025).
On being asked astir the TMP's main rivals successful the TTAADC elections scheduled successful April 2026, Mr. Debbarma said, "Let's see".
Mr. Debbarma said, "We volition proceed to talk for the rights of Tiprasa (Indigenous) people, not against immoderate party. The Congress is obscurity connected the ground, portion the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)] has got into its aged shell, and section BJP leaders are making noise. The full crushed enactment is with the TMP. Without doing thing for the indigenous people, they volition not get votes successful the elections," helium said.
On the presumption of the Tiprasa accord, the TMP main said, "I person spoken to each (in Delhi), and they person privately said it should person been done. Until it is done, wherefore should we spot anyone." The TMP had signed an accord with the Centre and the Tripura Government successful the beingness of Union Home Minister Amit Shah successful September 2024 for the wide improvement of the indigenous people.
