Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey has courted controversy by claiming that the time has come to recover Noakhali, Sylhet, and the Chattogram port in Bangladesh. In an interview with news agency ANI on Friday, he criticized former Indian Prime Jawaharlal Nehru's policies regarding the region.
Dubey alleged that these regions, which were part of Tripura, were handed over to Pakistan by Nehru. He claimed that northeastern Indian states have lagged behind because the Chattogram port is not under Indian control.
Meanwhile, Pradyot Bikrom Manikya Debbarma, a descendant of Tripura's royal family and founder of Tipra Motha, supported the BJP MP's remarks, stating on social media that handing over parts of Tripura during partition was a historical mistake.
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