IPCS, News Report by Sanjib Deb, The Asian Age 26 February 2001
The banned National Liberation Front of Tripura has admitted to a split in it's leadership and is making desperate attempts to shed the pro-Christian tag with which it has been associated. Stressing their commitment to secularism, the NLFT central executive committee said political secretary D. Joshua alias Jogendra Debbarma, who had recently deserted the organisation, had helped percolate the pro-Christian ideology to the lowest level of the outfit.
In a statement signed by publicity and information secretary M.R. Tuijang, the NLFT denied allegations by former leader Nayanbasi Jamatya that the outfit had been working involved in the plan to forcibly convert all tribals to Christianity. The statement said Joshua left the party as the NLFT central executive committee refused to accept his pro-Christian stand. The outfit has also denied any role in the abduction of the four RSS leaders from north Tripura district on August 6, 1999, though earlier Nayambasi had, after leaving, admitted that the four RSS pracharaks had been executed by order of the NLFT leaders.
Now the Group claims to be Secular. Maybe you should ban Secularism too.