Rajeshwar Debbarma is a Tipra Indian politician from

Tripura Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...

who won the election in 2003 as a candidate of

Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (abbr. INPT) was a political party in the Indian state of Tripura. Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl was the President of the party. It merged with the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Alliance (TIPRA) party on 11 ...

. He became MLA of Takarjala. He was one of the prominent leaders of

who worked for the betterment of the indigenous people.

Political career

Rajeshwar Debbarma started his political career from the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) in the early 2000s. He also elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Takarjala Constituency. Later, Rajeshwar joined Congress after repeated defeat of INPT in the subsequent elections. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after it came to power in 2018. However, Rajeshwar quitted BJP in 2019 as a protest against the controversial

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing a pathway to Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Banglades ...

. Rajeshwar joined TIPRA as having worked with its chairman Pradyot Bikram Manikya over the years. He was appointed as political secretary and has been one of the top advisor in the party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Debbarma, Rajeswar Tripura MLAs 2003–2008 Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Tipra Motha Party politicians