Confirmation is now available from various authoritative statements in the Lok Sabha that the Tripura National Volunteers organisation, which is currently creating a lot of mischief in the sensitive border State of Tripura, enjoys considerable support from Bangladesh as well as from the underground Mizo National Front and the ‘Army’ under its control. What is imperative in the situation is a closer co-ordination between the civil and Army authorities engaged in maintenance of law and order in the State and security in the land. A break in this tie-up of late has only contributed to ‘a tangible’ -deterioration in the overall situation to which attention of both tho State and Central authorities has pointedly been drawn in recent weeks.
Of particular significance in this context is the fact that the new Governor, General Krishna Rao has got himself actively interested in this job of weaning the affected areas from terroristic influence. Addressing various tribal groups recently he urged the TNV volunteers to surrender and to return to normal life, warning at the same time that the Government would take stern measures if peaceful methods failed. The General has considerable experience about insurgency conditions in this region, and this active interest on his part is like an assurance that any possible misunderstanding existing hitherto between the civil government and the local military command may have been over and unlikely to recur with an ex-Armyman adorning the office of the Head of State whose advice would come very much handy in tackling this growing menace of insurgency.