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How much burden can we take, asks Tripura royal scion Pradyot Deb Barman after challenging Citizenship Act

Tripura royal scion and one of the foremost leaders protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act from the Northeast, Pradyot Deb Barman, said that he is not anti-Bengali but doesn't want the Centre to overburden the state with more migrants.
Barman earlier moved the Supreme Court challenging the new controversial law. Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal is likely to appear on his behalf.
Tripura along with other northeastern states was rocked by massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which enables non-Muslim refugees (Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians) from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who arrived in the country before December 31, 2014, to obtain Indian citizenship.
Speaking to Express, the head of the Manikya Dynasty said, "We are not against any religion. Neither am I anti-Hindu nor anti-Bengali. The point is how can one state absorb three times its own population while the other states are exempted from it. How much burden can Tripura take?
If the government wants to bring in persecuted Hindus, then they must be distributed across the country. There is serious concern for the indigenous people of Tripura. When the state acceded to merge with the Union of India (in 1947) we were promised that the culture, language and ethnicity of Tripura will be protected.

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