Tripura’s main tribal based party, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), which has been agitating since 2009 for upgrading the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council into a separate tribal state, held a series of meetings in New Delhi on Thursday and Friday with Prime Minister rendra Modi, Home Minister Rajth Singh, Minister of State for PMO Jitendra Singh and central BJP leaders. Assam’s powerful minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who holds the Fince, Health and Family Welfare and Education portfolios in the BJP-led State government, arranged these politically significant meetings.