“‘Make Northeast Great Again’: Tipra Motha Chief Pradyot Manikya wants Bharat to reclaim CHT and Cox Bazaar”, Forpol India, September 18, 2025:
“Tipra Motha chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya lashed out at Bangladeshi illegal immigrants and Rohingyas entering Tripura and other states of Bharat. In his recent interview with ANI journalist Smita Prakash, Pradyot Manikya also highlighted the need for electoral verification of voters in Tripura. Significantly, he emphasised that Bharat needs to take Chittagong Hill Tract from Bangladesh.
Pradyot Manikya also recalled how his grandmother, then the ruling queen of Tripura, took the decision of merging the Kingdom into Secular Bharat in 1949 instead of Islamic East Pakistan after direct communication with Sardar Patel. He said that there were movement of Pakistani troops near the Tripura Border and that Pakistan wanted to invade Tripura.
He spoke about the riots at various places like Noakhali, Cumilla which forced Hindu Bengalis to migrate to Tripura. He said that the indigenous people of Tripura at that time of crisis gave shelter to the Hindu people. And the Bengali Hindus who came to Tripura then could not go back home because of the existing anti-Hindu sentiments in their native places. He said, “A lot of our Hindu brothers and sisters’ properties were burnt, women were raped, temples were burnt, so they all came over to Tripura…….”
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