Tripura: ATTF latest to join chorus on NRC implementation in state

Agartala: The demand for the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Tripura — on the lines of a similar exercise being undertaken in neighbouring Assam — seems to be growing by the day.

Insurgent group All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), led by its ‘commander general’ Ranjit Debbarma, is the latest to join the list of entities filing a petition in the Supreme Court seeking NRC implementation in the state.

Debbarma, who was arrested in 2013 under the National Security Act (NSA) but later acquited of the charges in May 2016, has reportedly joined hands with the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), the Tripura People’s Front (TPF), Tripura royal heir Pradyot Bikram Kishore Manikya Debbarman and a couple of NGOs to form a team in filing a petition in the apex court over the NRC issue.