Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti ("Tripura Tribal Youth Association") was a political party in the

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n state of

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 ...

from 1977–2001. During 1988-93, the

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formed a coalition government with the TUJS at the

Tripura Legislative Assembly The Tripura Legislative Assembly or Tripura Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tripura, with 60 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The present Assembly is located in Gurkhabasti. Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala ser ...

. In 2002, TUJS merged with

Indigenous People's Front of Tripura The Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) is a regional political party in Tripura, India. It is a member of the National Democratic Alliance and North-East Democratic Alliance. The party was merged into the Indigenous Nationalist Party o ...

to form Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra.

Electoral Performance

The

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-TUJS coalition together won 31 seats out of 60 at the

1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election The 1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase on 2 February 1988 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India. More than 100 individuals ...

Notable Leaders

Shyama Charan Tripura Shyama Charan Tripura is an Indian politician and social activist from Tripura. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Chawamanu in 1998 and 2003. He won from Chhawmanu twice and from Santibazar for one time as a Member of Le ...

Harinath Debbarma Harinath Debbarma (born 30 June 1933) is a Tipra-Indian politician, activist and statesman from Tripura. Harinath Debbarma founded the Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti (TUJS) in 1967 along with Shyama Charan Tripura. Later he founded the Indigenous P ...

* Nagendra Jamatia * Drao Kumar Riang * Budha Debbarma * Gouri Sankar Reang * Rati Mohan Jamatia * Rabindra Debbarma * Diba Chandra Hrangkhowl

References

Defunct political parties in Tripura Political parties established in 1967 Political parties disestablished in 2001 1967 establishments in Tripura {{India-party-stub