Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma

Kirit Pradyot Manikya Deb Barma Bahadur is an Indian political activist. He is the current head of Tripura Royal Family and is the 186th King Titular.
He was born in Delhi, and now resides in Agartala, Tripura. He also served as the editor of TNT-The Northeast Today. He is the current chairman of The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance also known as TIPRA.He is known as 'Bubagra' among his people and is one of the active voice for the rights of Indigenous Tripuri people of Tripura.
Early life.
Bubagra Pradyot Manikya was born at New Delhi on 4 July 1978 as the first son of Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Debbarma (The 185th King of Tripura) and Maharani Bhibu Kumari Devi. His childhood days was spent in Shillong, Meghalaya at the Tripura castle. Also, his initial to higher education was from Shillong itself.
Political career.
As a youth, Pradyot Manikya was an active Congress leader. Even his father Kirit Bikram Debbarma was a three time MP and his mother Bibhu Kumari, a two time Congress MLA who had served as the Revenue Minister of Tripura. Although Pradyot did not contest election until this year 2021 TTAADC election, he had remained active in protest, agitations and movement for the Tiprasa people of Tripura. 
In the 2018 Lok Sabha election, he was an active campaigner for his sister Maharaj Kumari Pragya Debbarma who contested for the Tripura East. He had also tried to forged a regional alliance during that period which did not happen. 
2019- 
After the fallout with the Tripura Pradesh Congress in 2019, Bubagra Pradyot Manikya resigned from the President post over the dispute of NRC case filing and took some break from active politics. However he started gained voice and support for his agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2018 (now an act). He also jointly filed a case with TPF Supremo Patal Kanya Jamatia in the Supreme Court to revoke CAA in the state of Tripura and enfore NRC with the cut off year as 1951.
2020-Present 
Public life, activism and opinions.
Bubagra Pradyot is quite active in his public life and can be seen taken part in several occasions like the TEDx Talks. On 16 February 2020, he organized a Q&A interactive session with students at Townhall, Agartala where he talked and discussed about leadership, clarity and issues like Citizenship Amendment Act with the students present. He also suggested that a scholarship in the name of Maharaja Bir Bikram be started by the Government of Tripura than putting up a statue.
He launched The Northeast Today, a magazine targeted at residents of India's northeastern states. This enjoys a readership just shy of 1,000,000. He resigned and sold his magazine in November 2019 to concentrate on his own regional platform The Indigenous Progressive regional alliance popularly known as TIPRA. He is one of India's most vocal critics of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and is a prolific guest speaker at universities, the most notable being Harvard. He has been active in protesting against the CAA since the passing of the bill in 2019 at the parliament.