Tripura royal scion’s new outfit upstages BJP in tribal council polls

In a wake-up call to BJP in one of its two main Northeast strongholds, 18 out of 28 constituencies of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council on Saturday voted for royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarman’s newly launched Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance and its ally INPT in the high-stakes tribal council polls.