India, Feb. 10 -- The Tipra Indigenous Students Federation (TISF), the student wing of Tripura's main opposition TIPRA Motha, on Friday said they would hold an indefinite protest and declared the blocking of roads and railway movement across the state from February 12 to increase pressure on the state government on its demand for allowing students to write their Kokborok language papers in Roman script in board examinations.

This comes hours after Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) president Dr Dhananjoy Ganchoudhury made a U-turn over allowing Roman script for Kokborok subject.

"The TBSE president first said that both scripts would be allowed but later he changed his version saying that only Bengali script will be allowed. For...