Tribal politics in North-East India: A study on the role of indigenous political parties in Tripura

Tripura was a C category state when it was joined with the union of India, by signing the instrument of accession. It assumed that the tribal issues would be addressed immediately by the government of India. But this agenda remains shrouded blaming each other role that was repugnant to solve the tribal issues from the root. Over the years, Tribal politics came into the forefront with the issue of excessive migration of Bengalis from the neighboring countries. The sudden changes of demography of the state created lots of havoc and dissatisfaction along with a sense of insecurity of losing tribal land rights, identity and culture. It perceived a threat to identity crisis of the tribal people since they become a minority group in their own land and losing political grief due to changing demographic figure. Several groups were born in the meantime to address the tribal atrocities. The insurgent groups manifested aggressive means in their approach, used militancy the means of to solve tribal problems of the state. The objective of the paper is to highlights the development of regional political parties in Tripura and findout the factors that led to power politics in last five decades. The present study focusing on how tribal politics mobilized the indigenous communities to develop a separate identity in the state. How the regional political parties act as boomerang to organized tribal politics in the state. This study also highlights the role of TIPRA Motha a regional political party, formed in 2021, but playing a deceive role in state politics since then.