Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that she had quit the Congress due to the chaotic conditions in the party and equated both BJP and CPI-M for violence and corruption in Tripura.

During search operation a 14 wheeler truck bearing registration no. RJ-19GF-7019 moving from Udaipur, Gomati district to Karimganj, Assam was searched and found to be carrying dry Ganja.

CEO office sources said that after polling, the ballot papers will be kept under strict surveillance in the strong room of the returning officers of the respective assembly constituencies. Ballot paper votes will be counted first on the counting day of March 2.

Agartala Battalion of Assam Rifles flagged off National Interactive Tour to Headquarter Directorate General Assam Rifles, Shillong for special children of Ferrando Rehabilitation Centre on 06 February 2023 under Assam Rifles Civic Action Programme 2022-2023.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee began her two-day visit to poll-bound Tripura on Monday and will hold a road-show and and address an election rally on Tuesday.

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Monday said that voting for the CPI-M and the Congress in the February 16 Assembly elections will facilitate the return of terrorism and violence in Tripura.

Addressing the media, the Left and the Congress leaders said that they fought many elections against each other but this time they came together with only one agenda to defeat the BJP and provide freedom to the people of the state.

Worried of the emergence of the TIPRA Motha regional party led by royal scion Pradyot Manikya Deb Barma, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Monday said that the TIPRA Motha has a secret understanding with the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress party.

Out of the 259 candidates contesting the February 16 Tripura Assembly elections, 16 per cent (41) have declared criminal cases against themselves, while 17 per cent (45) are crorepatis.

The BJP government in the last five years has undertaken a slew of development initiatives and piped drinking water supply to every household is one of those initiatives that have brought visible change in the lives of people.

The state in-charge of the party Rajib Banerjee said the promises made in the manifesto will be implemented in true spirit if the party is voted to power. He said, "Our leaders Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee do what they promise unlike others.”

With less than two weeks left for the Tripura assembly election, the railway police on Sunday detained at least 8 Rohingyas and 4 Bangladesh nationals from Agartala Railway Station.

Ahead of the Assembly elections in three northeastern states - Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, political parties are divided over the Union Budget 2023 even as trade and industry bodies predict that the northeastern region would gain substantially from it.

Displaced from their decades old inhabited villages in Mizoram 26 years ago following ethnic troubles, around 14,000 of the total 37,136 Reang tribals will cast their votes in the February 16 assembly polls to elect a new government in Tripura.

The Election Commission of India has approved 12 alternative identity proofs for the voters for this ensuing assembly election in the state scheduled to be held on February 16 next, said Chief Electoral Officer Kiren Gitte on Saturday.

The TIPRA Motha regional political party Saturday released ‘Mission 15 in 150 days’ vision document and assured of 20,000+ jobs and employment opportunities in the first 150 days of government if voted to power in the ensuing assembly election.

Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Saturday (Feb 04) physically inspected the preparations at the campaigning venues of Home Minister Amit Shah in order to ensure that everything is conducted flawlessly.

Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections, the Chief Minister who is also the candidate of 8 Town Bordowali Assembly Constituency, held a door-to-door campaign on Saturday morning like every other day.

Due to the timely intervention of Chief Minister Prof. Dr Manik Saha, the ban which was imposed on import of fish, meat and poultry food products from other countries were lifted today.

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar has announced the resolution of her dispute with the international federation over a provisional suspension for a positive test for ingestion of a banned substance in October 2021 and she will be back in action in July 2023.

Addressing a Vijay Sankalpa rally at Amarpur in Gomati district of the state on Friday Nadda said, “The budget for tribal groups has been increased by four times. No one has cared about tribals for the previous 70 years.”

Reappointment of retrenched 10,323 government school teachers, employment for youths, and restoration of law and order are some of the main promises featured in the CPI-M-led Left Front manifesto ahead of the February 16 Assembly polls.

BJP national president J.P. Nadda on Friday claimed that the Congress and the CPI-M during their governance destroyed Tripura on all fronts while the BJP during the five-year rule created a 'new Tripura', establishing peace and boosting development.

He said, “If the CPI(M) is voted to power again they would undoubtedly perpetrate violence and resume its’ rule of terror in the state. People of Tripura want a peaceful atmosphere to continue for more development.”

“The Congress unit here in Tripura should ask their high command in Delhi, as what prompted the party to go for an understanding with the CPI(M) party, which killed many congress workers here,” she said.