In March 1967, the party split into two factions: Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history During the 1940s the royal house of Tripura tried its best to maintain its political rule over the state.

However, monarchy was challenged by movements that were influenced by the Indian National Congress and the Communist Party of India.

In 1946 members of Janamangal Samiti (People's Welfare Association), Janasiksha Samiti (People's Educational Association), the local cell of the Communist Party and individual left-wingers got together to form the Tripura Rajya Prajamandal (Tripura State Popular Assembly).

Following the Partition of India, a major wave of Bengali Hindus migrated to Tripura from East Pakistan.

The Prajamandal leadership considered that it had no possibility to cope with the increasing repression, and decided to dissolve the association.

[2] As Tripura was put under military rule in March 1949, the leadership of the Mukti Parishad went underground to escape arrests.

In the ‘liberated areas’ people's government was in command, with the Village Committees of GMP managing the everyday affairs.

At the same time, a cultural revolution took place within the tribal society as abolition of child marriages, forced labour, excessive alcohol consumption, oppression of women, etc.

In the first parliamentary elections of India in 1952 both seats of the Lok Sabha (2nd chamber of the Indian parliament) were won by the CPI.

The cases against him were not dropped until he was pardoned by the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself after having reached the parliament premises incognito for his first session.

Thus Deb's thesis that Tiprasa constituted as separate subnationalist entity and needed a mass organization of their own had been implemented in the organizational practice.

In 1983 the All Tripura Peoples Liberation Organization of Binanda Jamatya gave up their arms and were integrated into the Ganamukti Parishad.

ATPLO had surged as a splinter group of the Tripura National Volunteers, and a turf war between the TNV soon turned into a bloody fight.