The Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), a rights organisation, has written to the new Governor of Tripura Tathagata Roy urging him to persuade the State Government to set up the long awaited Tripura State Human Rights Commission. Mr. Roy, however, said that he had not received the letter so far.
“Despite repeated prodding by the National Human Rights Commission to set up a State Human Rights Commission, the Tripura Government has not acted on the matter,” said Ranjit Sur, secretary of the BBD Bag branch (in Central Kolkata) of APDR, in a letter dated May 1.
In the letter, APDR expressed surprise over the fact that even though the Communist Party of India-Marxist or CPI-M led Left Front Government in Bengal set up the first State Human Rights Commission in the country in 1995, the Left Front Government in Tripura had been inactive in this regard.
