Tripura protest: Students block rail tracks, roads over Kokborok script issue
PTI report. “Blockades were erected at many places in West Tripura district.
However, normal life was largely unaffected in Agartala Municipal Corporation areas (AMC)," district magistrate (West Tripura), Visha Kumar was quoted by PTI. No untoward incident was reported during the agitation.
Due to the protests, at the Tripura Central University, all undergraduate and postgraduate examinations scheduled for Monday and onwards were suspended. Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma claimed that he got assurance from the “highest level" in Delhi that the students will be allowed to write Kokborok in their choice of script.
“I am in Delhi as the talks with the highest level are going on… I know the protest erupted in the entire Tripura over the script issue. I urge all of you to remain calm because violence will earn a bad name for us," he said in a video message, as per the report.
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