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Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra, political party in the Indian state of Tripura. INPT is led by Bijoy Hrangkwal (former guerrilla leader of the Tripura National Volunteers). INPT was formed as a merger of Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura and Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti. The formation of INPT was pushed through after pressure from the underground National Liberation Front of Tripura, who wanted to unite all tribal nationalist forces in a single party. INPT is commonly seen as the political branch of NLFT.
As IPFT had a majority in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, INPT came to govern that insitution until 2003.
In the state assembly elections in 2003 INPT was allied with the Indian National Congress. INPT launched 18 candidates and Congress 42. Six INPT candidates were elected, and in total the party received 189 186 votes. The elections were won by the Left Front.
INPT suffered a serious set-back in the summer of 2003, when a group of TTAAADC members under the leadership of Hiren Tripura broke away and formed the National Socialist Party of Tripura. One high-ranking INPT leader, Shyamcharan Tripura, took the side of the dissidents. NSPT were able to, with support from the CPI(M) members in TTAADC, to win a majority in the assembly and INPT formed the opposition.
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To gain recognition as a state party, the party must have some kind of political activity for at least five continuous years, and send at least 4% of the state's quota to the Lok Sabha (India's Lower house), or 3.33% of members to the state assembly.
If a party is recognised in four or more states, it is automatically recognised as a national party by the EC.
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