Guwahati: In a recent development in Tripura politics, leader of the FMR National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) Daniel Borak joined the BJP on Friday.
The FMR NLFT leader claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts on behalf of tribal people prompted him to join the party.
According to reports, 29 additional FMR NLFT cadres have also joined BJP along with Daniel Borak.
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed on March 12, 1989, with Dhananjoy Reang (former Vice-President of the Tripura National Volunteers) as its ‘chairman’. Reang after being ‘expelled’ from the NLFT in 1993 formed a separate outfit, the Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA), but surrendered in the year 1997. After being “expelled” from the NLFT in 1993, Reang established a different organisation called the Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA), but he eventually gave up in 1997. After Reang’s departure, Nayanbasi Jamatiya assumed leader of the outfit and later Biswamohan Debbarma took control.
However, after disagreements between the NLFT’s Halam and Debbarma tribal members, another split took place in September 2000.
As a result, Jogendra alias Joshua Debbarma established the Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT). When Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Biswamohan Debbarma broke away from the parent organisation to lead factions of the NLFT, it is thought that personal ambitions of the leaders and narrow theological considerations were the causes of yet another split in 2001.
The NLFT was proscribed in April 1997 under the Unlawful Operations (Prevention) Act, 1967, following its involvement in terrorist and subversive activities. It is also proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002.