Amit Shah to meet NE parties on CAA today

AGARTALA/NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah will meet in New Delhi on Friday leaders of tribal-based parties of northeastern states, including the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ally the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

The IPFT, which resumed anti-caa stir after a month, continued i t s sit- i n at Khumulwng, headquarters of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), for the 11th day on Thursday. In Shillong, Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma said he would lead a delegation of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) to meet Shah and urge him to promulgate the i nner l i ne pe r mit ( I LP) i n remaining areas of the state.

The Meghalaya Assembly on

December 19 unanimously adopted a resolution, requesting the Centre to promulgate the ILP. The resolution and the state gazette notification have been communicated to the Centre.

“We are in Delhi for the past few days, but are yet to meet the Home Minister due to his prior engagements outside Delhi. The meeting will be on Friday,” JMACAB leader and Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) General Secretary Jagadhish Debbarma told IANS over phone from Delhi.

The IPFT has been demanding the creation of a separate state for tribals by upgrading the TTAADC and including Kokborok, a tribal language, in the 8th schedule of the Constitution.

The TTAADC has jurisdiction over two-thirds of Tripura’s 10,491 sq km area, home to over 12,16,000, 90% of whom are tribals.