Agartala, May 06: Over 60 militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura, including its chief Montu Koloy who signed a peace agreement in New Delhi recently, would lay down arms before Tripura Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahaya today. Besides Montu Koloy, NLFT's self-styled army chief Dhanu Koloy, vice-president Kamini Debbarma, publicity secretary Binoy Debbarma and revenue secretary Bishnu Prasad Jamatiya would also surrender, sources said. The ultras including women cadres, who have come from their base camps in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh are now staying in the camps of security forces, the sources said.
Sources said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who is also the politburo member of CPI-M presently campaigning in West Bengal, is likely to be present in surrender ceremony.
Montu Koloy and his colleagues signed a tri-partite peace agreement with the Centre and Tripura government in Delhi on April 15 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister L.K Advani. However, the conditions of the peace accords are yet to be made public.
In yet another peace move, the supremo of banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), Ranjit Debbarma has expressed interest in a dialogue with the Centre to come overground.
"We will agree for peace talks if our three-point preconditions are fulfilled", Debbarma told.
Bureau Report