Category: AGARTALA

BJP sources in Imphal said that Home Minister Shah, one of the star campaigners of the ruling BJP, would address an election rally at the Hapta Kangjeibung ground, palace compound, in Imphal East district on Monday afternoon.

Tripura Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Saturday said that he is considering reopening all the political murder cases that occurred during the CPIM’s regime and would seek suggestions from legal experts after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha election.

Tripura's political landscape buzzed with anticipation as the ruling BJP, alongside its coalition partners Tipra Motha and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), convened for a strategic gathering following the recent visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said that it is more than 100 per cent confirmed that Narendra Modi would become Prime Minister for a third term. Also, the BJP would easily win the two Lok Sabha seats in the state but we are not taking the INDIA bloc lightly, he added.

Hectic preparations are underway ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's much-expected visit to Manipur and Tripura on Monday to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission on Friday cautioned BJP's Tripura East Lok Sabha candidate, Kriti Devi Debbarma, who had called the opposition CPI-M a "party of murderers".

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is scheduled to address an election rally and participate in a roadshow in Agartala on April 16, a party leader said on Friday.

A record number of over 20,000 security personnel comprising Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and state force personnel have been deployed in Tripura for the elections to two Lok Sabha constituencies and the by-poll in one Assembly seat in the state, officials said here on Friday.

Former Tripura Chief Minister and the BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Biplab Kumar Deb said that there is absolutely no anti-incumbency factor against the BJP or the Narendra Modi government in Tripura or the northeastern region.

Former BJP MLA and veteran lawyer Arun Chandra Bhowmik, who was expelled from the ruling party in November last year for anti-party activities, joined the Congress on Thursday.

Any dereliction of the order would invite stringent action under the existing criminal law in force, the order said, adding that all concerned should refrain from violating the law.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Thursday took on the opposition Communist party over their slogan to save democracy and said that the oppositions are left with no issue for the ensuing Lok Sabha election.

The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer in Tripura has received 15 complaints of Model Code of Conduct violations from different political parties and has suspended five government officials since the MCC was enforced in the state from March 16.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Manipur and Tripura next week to further intensify the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign in the northeastern states, party sources said on Thursday.

Top security officials said that special measures are also being taken along the international borders with Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah would visit Tripura next week to further spearhead the campaign for the coming Lok Sabha elections, party sources said.

Addressing an election rally at Bagma, Deb said that the tribals in Tripura have already come out from the communist’s grip and they are no more to vote for them, who failed to meet their aspirations during the last 25 years of their rule in the state.

To facilitate senior citizens, those aged 80 and above, and those with 40 per cent disabilities, the state election commission has begun Home Voting for the 1st phase of Lok Sabha election in West Tripura Parliamentary Constituency from Wednesday.

In the latest incident that occurred last night, a gang of thieves struck the school and made away with a gas pipeline, meter, and other materials from outside the mid-day meal room, though they could not gain entry into the room itself.

In anticipation of the upcoming by-election in the Ramnagar assembly constituency, BJP candidate Dipak Majumder has intensified his campaign efforts, taking to the streets of Krishnanagar area with fervor.

The Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner of Election Commission of India, Rajiv Kumar, demanding to proper inquiry and action against Sub-division Magistrate of Mohanpur in West District

Tripura Police have arrested two individuals and seized cannabis worth Rs. 55 lakh as they attempted to smuggle it using a fake ambulance in Kumarghat, under Unakoti District.

Acting on a tip-off regarding a group of youths involved in the sale and purchase of narcotics in the Krishnanagar area, officers from the West Agartala Police Station conducted a targeted raid.

The opposition CPI(M) state secretary and the leader of opposition Jitendra Choudhury on Tuesday accused the BJP candidate for East parliamentary constituency Kriti Singh Debbarma over allegedly calling the CPI(M) as ‘Party of killers’

The Pradesh Congress Committee today filed an FIR against three persons for allegedly destroying the party’s campaign material in Radhanagar area of Agartala city.