Agartala, Jan 19 (UNI) The Chairman of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) and veteran tribal leader Jagadish Debbarma on Wednesday alleged that both the state and central governments for the last four decades doing politics over Kokborok language (tribal dialect) spoken all the indigenous communities of Tripura.
Tripura has been observing Kokborok Day (Tripuri language Day) on January 19 every year with a series of programmes for the development of the Kokborok language, which was recognised as the official language 43 years ago and this has little exception due to the Covid19 pandemic.
Debbarma underlined Kokborok was recognised as an official language in 1979, still, it is not included in the 8th schedule of the constitution.