Tripura Cong chief quits over NRC, ‘compromises’

AGARTALA: President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee, Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman, has resigned from all party posts over his plea for implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state and refusing to “compromise” with other Congress leaders.

Debbarman said the central leadership had requested him not to make his resignation public before the by-elections to Badharghat constituency, which was held on Monday. “I have resigned from all posts of the Congress a few days ago. The party high command had asked me to compromise with a section of state leaders, but I told them it was not possible.

“Then they asked me to withdraw the litigation that I have filed for the introduction of NRC in Tripura, but I did not agree to it, too,” Debbarman told PTI.

Debbarman said he was also unhappy over the central leadership’s plan to appoint Subal Bhowmick as the executive president of the Tripura PCC.

Bhowmick, a former Congress MLA, had joined the BJP before the Assembly elections on February 18 as the saffron party’s state vice-president but returned to his former party before the Lok Sabha polls.earlier in the day, in a Facebook post, Debbarman wrote: “Woke up today after a long time feeling relaxed. I start this day without having to listen to criminals and liars....not having to listen to ‘High Command’ on how to accommodate corrupt people in high positions...”