Mevar chairs second IPFT Executive committee meeting

Amid strains in relations with the bigger partner in the ruling alliance, IPFT today convened a meeting to decide its future course of action. IPFT supremo Mevar Kumar Jamatia chaired the meeting at Agartala Press Club and invited views from executive committee members to chalk out the party’s strategy for the forthcoming elections. “Barely 11 months are left for the assembly elections and given the party’s present state of affairs; IPFT needs a complete reboot from top to bottom. The party is also seeking views from all the party leadership regarding the alliance issues as with changing times, the political inclinations are also changing rapidly”, said a top party source. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, IPFT President Mevar Kumar Jamatia said, “After I was appointed as President of IPFT this is for the second time, the executive committee meeting was held. Our main agenda is to discuss the present political situation and take a set of resolutions based on the findings of the meeting”. Sources further said, the IPFT has witnessed massive erosion in support base in the last couple of years, especially after TIPRA’s call for Greater Tipraland struck a chord among the indigenous masses. The IPFT, in a way, struggled to continue with the massive support base it has gained before the 2018 elections. Now, TIPRA, which has already dissolved other regional parties into it, stands as the strongest force in overshadowing the IPFT, sources added. On being asked whether there are any possibilities of alliance with TIPRA as Pradyot Kishore Debbarman has recently urged the party to join the common platform, sources said, “the IPFT is exploring all the possibilities. We are not ruling out anything, whatever it is required for survival will be tried in the days to come”.