A high power Central delegation will visit Tripura in September to study the situation and take necessary steps to contain insurgency, Union Home Minister L. K. Advani has told a delegation of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT).

The decision follows the demand of a four-member delegation of IPFT, headed by its chairman Bijoy Hrangkhawl, MLA, which met the Union Home Minister in Delhi recently and urged him to call all identified insurgent outfits of the State for peace talks. The demand was placed in view of the extension of the Centre’s ceasefire with NSCN (I-M) in Nagaland for the fourth year from August 1.

IPFT general secretary Debabrata Koloi and a member of the delegation said the delegates had asked, "Why ceasefire with NSCN (I-M) alone and why not with other outfits of the region, especially outfits from Tripura? Insurgency cannot be contained by Army and police action alone, we have demanded unilateral ceasefire by the Centre. The Centre and the State have reiterated the call for talks but it is difficult to respond to such calls on the part of the outfits having arms because they can be caught by the security forces while coming for talks.