The Hindu : CPI(M) flays INPT chief's speech

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Friday, Aug 16, 2002

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CPI(M) flays INPT chief's speech

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI AUG. 15. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has strongly condemned the speech made by the president of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl, at a meeting in Geneva in which he has supported the secessionist aims of the extremist groups like the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force.

In a statement here on Wednesday, the CPI(M) politburo said the entire speech made at the working group of the party terms the non-tribal community in Tripura as foreigners. "The speech confirms the fact that the INPT is nothing but the political front of NLFT, a banned organisation, which is responsible for the killings of hundreds of innocent people,'' it said.

The party said that Mr. Hrangkhawl, who is a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, had not only violated the oath taken under the Constitution but openly sought to foment communal hatred.He has sought to defend the killings and kidnapping by the terrorist gangs. He cannot be immune to prosecution under the law,'' the CPI(M) said.

The party said the Congress party that has entered into a political alliance with the INPT ahead of the Assembly elections next year, should reconsider their decision.

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