Word: tripura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In an unaccustomed show of unity last week, opposition politicians met in New Delhi to protest what they called the "blatantly unconstitutional" dismissals and the "extinction of democracy." The leaders insisted that the Prime Minister was directly responsible for "this dangerous game of destabilization," and agreed...
...candidates five vehicles, 20,000 posters, 200 cloth banners, 10,000 paper badges, 50,000 pamphlets and a $10,000 campaign fund. It was not a campaign for the national parliament, however, but for legislatures in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and the northeastern state of Tripura. Nonetheless, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 65, was out to win big. Just to make sure, she spent 16 days barn storming through the three states, appealing to their 54 million voters...
...well as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The ongoing strife has paralyzed the state's oil industry, which supplies 12% of India's needs The student protest in Assam has been restrained by comparison with a savage outbreak of hatred against Bengalis in the neighboring state of Tripura; last June native tribespeople massacred more than 1,000 Bengali settlers...
Even before the Tripura massacre, similar troubles had erupted in the neighboring state of Assam. The native Assamese, afraid they might be outvoted by Bengali immigrants, forced the cancellation of elections in January. By April, agitation for the expulsion of all "foreigners" intensified. The movement spread to Tripura, where Bengali settlers opposed a measure aimed at returning disputed farm lands to the tribes...
...violence in Tripura has driven 243,000 into refugee camps. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government is sending 5,000 tons of rice, but no one knows how to solve the basic problem of resettlement. Some Indians would like to try to ease the tensions by deporting immigrants who arrived after 1971. The cruel question: Where can they...