Agartala: Oct 27. In a strongly worded complaint addressed to the President of the Press Club of India, sitting MLA Ranjit Debbarma from 24-Ramchandraghat Assembly Constituency has alleged that journalist Pranab Sarkar, owner-cum-editor of Headlines Tripura National and current President of Agartala Press Club, deliberately broadcast \u201cfake and fabricated news\u201d linking him with Bangladesh citizenship.
According to the letter, the MLA Debbarma has requested \u201csuitable early action\u201d against Mr. Sarkar and his associates for \u201cdeliberate and intentional broadcasting of fake news\u201d based on \u201cfabricated documents, including a Bangladeshi Voter ID Card and Birth Certificate.\u201d The complaint was sent to the Press Club of India, located at Raisina Road, New Delhi, detailing the alleged defamation and its impact on his public image.
The MLA wrote that on October 24, 2025, Headlines Tripura National began broadcasting reports highlighting he possessed Bangladeshi identification papers, which, he said, were \u201ccompletely false and manufactured with malicious intent.\u201d
\u201cI have been born and brought up in Tripura and am purely an Indian by birth,\u201d the MLA stated in the complaint, adding that he was \u201cdeeply shocked\u201d by the publication of such \u201cbaseless and politically motivated allegations.\u201d
He emphasized his Indian origin, detailing his early education at Chandpur S\/B School and Agartala Netaji Higher Secondary School, followed by Bodhjung H\/S School and Maharaja Bir Bikram College, Agartala. The MLA noted that his father\u2019s name is Krishna Debbarma and mother\u2019s name Madhumala Debbarma, rejecting the Bangladeshi documents that listed a different maternal name as \u201cSumita Debbarma.\u201d
The MLA Debbarma also pointed out that the Election Commission of Tripura had verified his documents and found them \u201cfit for candidature\u201d before allowing him to contest the 2023 Tripura Assembly Election, which he subsequently won.
He alleged that Sarkar, being a senior journalist and local resident familiar with his background, acted \u201cdeliberately and intentionally\u201d to malign his reputation and \u201cdestroy his bright political career.\u201d The complaint further claims that a \u201cgroup of conspirators\u201d may have been involved in forging the Bangladeshi documents later used in the broadcast.
The MLA, who belongs to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, argued that the act amounts to a violation under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, as it \u201cintentionally defames and tarnishes\u201d his image.
\u201cThis sort of intentional broadcasting has destroyed my transparent personal image and bright political career,\u201d the MLA wrote, urging the Press Club of India to intervene and take \u201cearly suitable action\u201d against Sarkar and his associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Agartala: Oct 27. In a strongly worded complaint addressed to the President of the Press Club of India, sitting MLA Ranjit Debbarma from 24-Ramchandraghat Assembly Constituency has alleged that journalist Pranab Sarkar, owner-cum-editor of Headlines Tripura National and current President of Agartala Press Club, deliberately broadcast \u201cfake and fabricated news\u201d linking him with Bangladesh citizenship. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":14878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[735,73],"tags":[2548,2434,2552,651,2549],"ppma_author":[2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-14879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"category-tripura","9":"tag-greater-tipraland-news","10":"tag-mla-ranjit-debbarma","11":"tag-tira-motha-party","12":"tag-tripura-legislative-assembly","13":"tag-tripura-politics"},"authors":[{"term_id":2519,"user_id":194,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amit-debbarma","display_name":"A Debbarma","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddbf850a65ce104c59e4db2c4f613874a56a842e9441a8547a0210e0c53e78b?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Faguli.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FPHOTO-2023-09-14-08-30-32-3.jpg&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14884,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions\/14884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=14879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}