IPFT president N C Debbarma who led the party delegates at the first round meeting held in Guwahati on Tuesday put forward the demand for forming a separate state in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomus District Council (TTAADC), they said.
The TTADC constitutes two third of the state's territory and is home to tribals who form one third of the population.
"The next round of talks will be held in the first week of January in Delhi and our demands will also be put forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh," he said.
IPFT, he said, is demanding formation of high level committees to study its demands, including the separate state but the response was earlier poor.
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"We had a positive discussion. There will be a second round of talks later. No talks on arrangement for seat sharing were held with BJP at the meeting," Jamatiya said adding though the demand for a separate was placed by IPFT the matter was not discussed at the meeting.
The IPFT has considerable support base in 20 tribal reserve constituencies out of the total 60 in Tripura apart from the ruling CPI-M.
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