Agartala, Sept. 23 -- The Tripura Pradesh Congress on Wednesday organised a press conference at Pradesh Congress Bhavan, where AICC MP and Tripura Pradesh Congress in-charge Saptagiri Ulaka and Pradesh Congress President Asish Kumar Saha raised a series of issues concerning tribal development, constitutional rights, employment and the functioning of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) ahead of the September 28 Village Committee elections.

Addressing the media, Congress leaders questioned competing political claims over the history of tribal development in Tripura. They said claims that development in the state's tribal areas was either largely completed before 1949 or began substantially after 2018 do not, in th...