Tripura: Cynical Strategies

Cynical Strategies Tripura is among three north-eastern states that go to polls on February 26 this year. Insurgent violence has already claimed several lives here. Such violence of course, has been endemic to the state and the attempt to subvert the electoral process through the spread of terror is but a repeat of cynical strategies adopted prior to the Tripura Tribal Autonomous District Council elections in May 2000. Then the victory of the newly formed amalgam of anti-left tribal units