AGARTALA: Addressing the gathering on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of the last king of Tripura, Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya, chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday said his government has re-introduced the Maharaja, considered the architect of modern Tripura, to the young generation.
From 2019, the state government had marked his birthday as a state holiday like other famous personalities to make the date a significant one for Tripura, Deb said. “We have renamed Agartala airport after Bir Bikram who had built it in 1942, which played a crucial role in World War II against the British.”
