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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}} | | name = Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl | ||
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| spouse = Linda Hrangkhawl | |||
| party = [[The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance|TipraHa Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance]] | |||
| birth_place = Tripura, India | |||
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|Dec|25|df=y}} | |||
| birth_name = Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl | |||
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| term_start2 = 2021 | |||
| 1blankname2 = Minister of | |||
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| office2 = President of [[The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance|TIPRA]], [[TTAADC|Chairman of TTAADC Advisory Committee]] | |||
| successor = Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl | |||
| predecessor = Hasmai Reang | |||
| constituency = Kulai | |||
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| term_end = 2003 | |||
| term_start = 1993 | |||
| office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]] | |||
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| children = [[Borkung Hrangkhawl]] | |||
| termend = 2008 | |||
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'''Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl''' is the current president of [[The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance]] or TIPRA. He was the leader of the [[Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra]], a political party based in the [[India]]n state of [[Tripura]]. | |||
:'' | == Early life == | ||
===Marriage and family=== | |||
After finishing school in Shillong, Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl got married to Linda Hrangkhawl. The couple had a son [[Borkung Hrangkhawl]]. Borkung is now a popular Singer-Songwriter who is celebrated across Northeast India. | |||
:''I don't deny that Linda (his wife) influenced my decision to surrender...I have no hesitation to admit that she alone was 25 per cent responsible for this (the Tripura) accord.'' | |||
In 1988 TNV signed a peace treaty, and TNV was converted into a [[political party]]. | '''Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl,''' ''TNV chief, in The Week'' | ||
== Tripuri Nationalism leadership between 1978–1988 == | |||
Hrangkhawl began his political career as an organising secretary in the ethno-nationalist [[Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti]]. He became the leader of the [[Tripuri Sena]], the militant wing of TUJS. Tripuri Sena was formed following the [[Left Front (Tripura)|Left Front]] victory in 1977, and it engaged in physical combat against the left. Tripuri Sena soon evolved into the [[Tripura National Volunteers]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The rise and fall of glorious Cachari kingdom|url=https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2019/5/21/Yangsorang-RongreisekThis-writer-is-first-fascinated-by-the-striking-activities-of-the-newly-floated-Manipur-Peoples-against-Citizenship-MANPAC-when-its-strong-delegation-toured-all-the-Seven-Sist.amp.html|access-date=2021-11-25|website=thesangaiexpress.com}}</ref> | |||
For ten years, 1978–1988, Hrangkhawl led an armed struggle as the supremo of the TNV, which sought to expel the [[Bengali people|Bengali]] majority from Tripura. TNV soon got infamous for their campaign of [[ethnic cleansing]] in the rural areas of Tripura. In 1983 he expressed the political ambitions of TNV in the following words in a letter to the then Prime Minister, [[Indira Gandhi]]: | |||
:''Armed insurgency was necessary to reach your heart. Either you deport all foreign nationals who infiltrated into Tripura after 15 October 1947 or settle them anywhere in India other than Tripura... We demand a free Tripura.''<ref>[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1709/17090460.htm Strategy of terror] {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vDYX5i3I?url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1709/17090460.htm |date=24 December 2010 }}</ref> | |||
In 1988 TNV signed a peace treaty, and TNV was converted into a [[political party]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hazarika|first=Sanjoy|last2=Times|first2=Special To the New York|date=1988-08-13|title=India and Tribal Guerrillas Agree to Halt 8-Year Fight|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/13/world/india-and-tribal-guerrillas-agree-to-halt-8-year-fight.html|access-date=2021-11-25|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | |||
TNV later merged with INPT. | TNV later merged with INPT. | ||
== Political career == | |||
After signing the TNV Accord in 1988, Bijoy Hrangkhawl joined mainstream politics with [[Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra|The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT)]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=How Tripura won the 'war' against AFSPA|url=https://www.dailyo.in/arts/afspa-tripura-manik-sarkar-government-insurgency-northeast-manipur-book-extract/story/1/21793.html|access-date=2021-11-25|website=dailyo.in}}</ref> He oversaw the implementation of the agreement like the reservervation of three more seats for the Indigenous people in [[1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election|Tripura Assembly]]. | |||
After the 1998 Tripura Assembly Election, Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl became a Member of Legislative Assembly for the first time from Kulai Constituency. He contested the state election as an Independent candidate. | |||
== Further reading == | |||
* Rites of Passage: Border Corssisngs, Imagined Homelands, India's East and Bangladesh by Sanjoy Hazarika<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hazarika|first=Sanjoy|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/604663871|title=Rites of passage : border crossings, imagined homelands, India's East and Bangladesh|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2000|isbn=978-93-5118-130-9|location=New Delhi|pages=240|language=English|oclc=604663871}}</ref> | |||
* Along the Red River By Sabita Goswami<ref>{{Cite book|last=Goswami|first=Sabita|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830956415|title=Along the red river|date=2013|others=Triveni Goswami Mathur|isbn=978-93-81017-01-2|location=New Delhi|oclc=830956415}}</ref> | |||
*Peace Accords in Northeast India: Journey Over Milestones by Swarna Rajagopalam<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rajagopalan|first=Swarna|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/682174384|title=Peace accords in Northeast India : journey over milestones|date=2008|publisher=East-West Center Washington|others=East-West Center Washington|isbn=9781932728743|location=Washington, DC|oclc=682174384}}</ref> | |||
*Lost Opportunities: 50 Years of Insurgency in the North-east and India's Response by S.P. Sinha<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=S. P., Brigadier|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182969662|title=Lost opportunities : 50 years of insurgency in the North-east and India's response|publisher=Lancer Publishers & Distributors|year=2007|isbn=81-7062-162-3|location=New Delhi|pages=137–146|language=English|oclc=182969662}}</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Tripuri nationalism]] | [[Category:Tripuri nationalism]] | ||
[[Category:Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra politicians]] | [[Category:Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra politicians]] | ||
[[Category:1946 births]] | |||
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