ISI obsession runs high as politicians say peace pact averted unrest in India’s Northeast
Agartala: The obsession of India’s Godi media with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has reached such an extent that political parties and leaders in the country seem gripped by an unexplained fear.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in this atmosphere of heightened suspicion, founder of the TIPRA Motha party, Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, claimed that the ISI could have used two Tripura-based militant groups to create unrest in India’s northeast if a peace agreement had not been concluded with them last year.
Speaking to reporters, Debbarma linked the alleged threat to possible instability in neighbouring Bangladesh following the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government. He asserted that the peace accord, signed in August 2023, blocked any chance of the groups being “manipulated by foreign forces.”
He added that without the agreement, the two groups could have been “activated” to disturb law and order in the sensitive border region.
Political observers ridicule this fear, saying that instead of addressing the genuine grievances of the people, especially in volatile northeast states, Indian politicians are in the habit of shifting blame onto others—most often Pakistan and its premier agencies.
