Nagendra Jamatia, TNV peace accord initiator, passes away

Nagendra Jamatia, TNV peace accord initiator, passes away

News:

Nagendra Jamatia, Tripura National Volunteers peace accord initiator passed away.

Facts:

• Nagendra Jamatia, the veteran tribal leader brokered peace with insurgent outfit Tripura National Volunteers in 1988.
• He was known for his effort to bring leader of Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura to the negotiating table with center.

About Tripura National Volunteers

• The TNV was founded in 1978 with assistance from the Mizo National Front.
• Tripura National Volunteers (also Tribal National Volunteers or Tripura National Volunteer Force) was a Tripuri nationalist militant group that launched an armed struggle in the early 1980s to separate Tripura from India.
• TNV surrendered in 1988 and integrated themselves into a political party.
• In 2000 TNV merged into the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura.
• TNV was led by Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl.