All India Chakma Social Forum (AICSF), an apex body of the Chakmas of India, Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), Tripura United Indigenous People’s Council (TUIPC) besides the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) on November 22 announced to intensify their agitations, reports East Mojo. The protests area against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). North East Students’ Organisations (NESO) stated that they would soon decide their next course of action against the CAB. Additionally, INPT general secretary Jagadhish Debbarma said that they would organise a 12-hour long rail and national highway blockade in Tripura on December 5 against the CAB.
Additionally, former leader of All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) Ranjit Debbarma, while oppossing Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) on November 21 said that it will violate the peace accord with Tripura Government, reports Northeast Today. He stated that CAB “will legalise the stay of illegal immigrants in India, which is against Article 2 (b) of the peace accord signed in 1993 between ATTF and the Tripura government.” He also added that Debbarma was arrested in Bangladesh in 2013, said as per 1993 All Tripura Tribal Force (ATTF) Peace Accord, Government of Tripura assured to take action against foreign nationals, restore alienated tribal land, include tribal majority villages in Autonomous District Council (ADC) areas, introduce Inner Line Permit (ILP), set up Village Police Force (VPF) for the Tripura ADC areas, increase number of seats for ST candidates in TTAADC and higher scope of government employment for tribals.