Issue will solved in due course: Tripura CM

AGARTALA : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha who led the BJP to power in Tripura earlier this year believes that the problems in the neighbouring State of Manipur “will be solved in due course”. Saha also claimed the BJP has been making inroads into the tribal belt in the State which till now has been in the iron grip of a tribal outfit Tipra Motha, which he feels is suffering from “its own problems”. “It [troubles] has happened before in Manipur. I do believe in due course the matter [ethnic clashes] will be solved,” CM Saha said. His own state, which has a long history of tribal insurgency and massacres, has witnessed protests against the Manipur violence by Kuki and other tribes living in the Jampui hills. The four-year-old Motha is led by a former militant, and Prodyut Manikya Debbarma—a scion of the former ruling family of the state—and has been in talks with the state government and the Centre, seeking a tribal-controlled Greater Tipraland as well as more funds and autonomy for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) which the tribal party controls.