By Tripura24.in Bureau
AGARTALA | July 4, 2026: Launching a scathing ideological offensive against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the top national and regional leadership of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) today accused the central and state governments of deliberately undermining the constitutional safeguards of indigenous communities to satisfy big corporate houses.
Addressing a high-voltage press conference in the capital city, the youth front raised alarm over rising unemployment, the dismantling of rural welfare frameworks, and state-backed corporate land accumulation across tribal belts.
The press panel featured a powerful line-up of national and regional left youth leaders, including:
- Shri Himagnaraj Bhattacharya, DYFI All India General Secretary
- Shri Vikas Jha, Senior National Leader
- Shri Nirankush Nath, DYFI Assam State Secretary
- Smt. Sonamani Tudu, DYFI West Bengal Youth Leader
- Shri Dhrubajyoti Saha, DYFI West Bengal State Secretary
- Shri Kumud Debbarma, General Secretary of the Tribal Youth Federation (TYF) Central Committee
Reflecting Youth Distresses: DYFI Reports Major Membership Milestone
Opening the press brief, DYFI All India General Secretary Himagnaraj Bhattacharya shared significant organizational data, asserting that the youth wing’s consistent fights against grassroot distresses have sparked a major membership boom.
In 2025, the youth front added an impressive 25,000 new members to its baseline of 1 lakh in the region. Moving through the current fiscal year of 2026, the active verified membership roster has officially climbed to an all-time high of 1,25,698.
”Our massive membership expansion is a direct reflection of our uncompromising stance on the real-world anxieties of today’s youth. The indigenous communities of our country have faced historic exploitation, and while the Constitution built specific shields to protect them, the current regime is actively shattering those shields. The BJP hesitates to call them ‘Adivasis’ (original inhabitants), intentionally branding them as ‘Janajatis’ to dilute their ancestral claims. Under the mask of development, fertile tribal lands, forests, and water reserves are being snatched and handed over to corporate giants like Adani and Ambani. This isn’t progress; it is corporate-sponsored displacement,” DYFI General Secretary Himagnaraj Bhattacharya stated.
Scrapping of MGNREGA and Tribal Outmigration Pushed to Forefront
The leadership placed heavy emphasis on the critical condition of the rural economy following the replacement of standard manual work guarantees with new central frameworks. The complete halt of MGNREGA projects has left tribal youths severely stranded without localized income pipelines.
The youth front demanded the immediate operationalization of an alternate rural employment act offering a minimum guarantee of 200 days of work with fair wages. Furthermore, they demanded strict administrative guidelines to ensure that during the upcoming national census operations, the original indigenous names and tribal identities are seamlessly documented without any systemic omissions.
Corporate Collusion, Unemployment, and the Drug Menace in Tripura
Slamming the socio-economic conditions within Tripura, the DYFI leaders noted that the state has completely failed to attract major clean industries, forcing millions of educated youths to look for desperate employment alternatives outside the state. Concurrently, thousands of vital public service vacancies within state departments remain intentionally frozen.
National Leader Vikas Jha and Assam State Secretary Nirankush Nath added that the RSS-BJP nexus is trying to break public unity using polarising identity politics while natural river blocks and forest timbers are smuggled out via corporate loopholes.
The youth panel concluded with a massive call-to-action regarding the drug epidemic destroying the state’s teenagers, directly alleging that major drug kingpins recently busted by enforcement agencies have established structural protections linked directly with ruling party elites. The leaders vowed to launch intense block-level picketing across Northeast India starting next week to counter the drug menace and fight for job creation.
