Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

In a press release the ICA department have informed that the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected members of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly will be held in the session hall of the Tripura Legislative Assembly on March 16 at 11 am.

Dr. Saha along with the council of ministers took oath on Wednesday in presence of the Prime Minister Narednra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president J P Nadda and others.

A jawan of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) has allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service riffle at Bishalgarh under Sepahijala district. The TSR jawan lost his life on the spot.

Amidst the ongoing post-poll violence in Tripura, an eight-member parliamentary team would visit the BJP-ruled state on Friday and Saturday to probe the incidents of political hostility and talk to the affected people.

The Chief Minister made this statement a day after the TIPRA Motha supremo Pradyot Manikya Deb Barman said that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured him of an official appointment of an interlocutor to bring constitutional solution to his demand.

In his maiden visit to Delhi after becoming the Chief Minister for the second time, Saha is also likely to meet Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar as well as a few Central ministers.

Addressing a press conference Dr Saha said that on the first cabinet meeting, MLA Binay Bhusan Das was elected as the pro-tem speaker of the Assembly and a discussion also took place on the vote on account.

The Union government will soon appoint an interlocutor to study and resolve the demands of the Tipra Motha Party (TMP) within three months, the tribal-based party chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman said here on Wednesday after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Manik Saha on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister, days after BJP-IPFT alliance retained power in Tripura for the second straight term by winning 32 seats in the 60-member state assembly, for which elections were held on February 16.

Dr. Manik Saha took oath as the Chief Minister of the second term of the BJP-IPFT government in Tripura on Wednesday in presence of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here at Agartala Swami Vivekananda Ground.

Opposition Congress and the CPI-M led Left parties will boycott the swearing-in-ceremony of Chief Minister and other ministers of the second BJP government in Tripura on Wednesday due to the "unprecedented reign of terror unleashed by the BJP supporters and goons".

The police spokesman quoting the court order said that all the five accused were convicted under section 376 (D) of the Indian Penal Code for gang rape and Section 3 of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

In a last ditch attempt, Home Minister Amit Shah would hold a meeting with the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), which played a significant role in the February 16 Assembly polls, emerging as the second single largest party securing 13 of the 20 vital tribal reserved seats in Tripura.

The 70-year-old BJP leader, who was also the state unit chief of the BJP and Rajya Sabha member for a brief period, took oath as the chief minister last year on May 15, a day after former chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from the top post.

Expressing concern over the sporadic incidents of violence across the state following the poll results, the leaders of the Left-Congress venture, Monday sought the intervention of the Director General of Police and demanded independent police action in mitigating violence.

Dr. Manik Saha, will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of the second term of the BJP-IPFT government on March 8. BJP won 32 seats while its junior partner IPFT swept one out of five seats in the recently concluded assembly election.

A swearing-in-ceremony of the new Chief Minister and the council of ministers will take place on Wednesday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President J.P. Nadda are slated to be in attendance.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma along with BJP president J.P. Nadda met Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Sunday to discuss the formation of new governments in Tripura and Nagaland.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday claimed that since the announcement of the February 16 assembly election results on March 2 which indicated that the BJP secured a majority, over 668 incidents of violence have taken place in Tripura.

However, some local parties including the influential tribal-based Tipra Motha Party (TMP) and the ruling BJP's ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura during the election campaign in Tripura highlighted the CAA issue.

A meeting of newly elected MLAs and leaders was held in Agartala on Sunday. BJP's northeast in-charge Sambit Patra, Manik Saha, BJP President Rajib Bhattacharjee, and Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik among others were present in the meeting.

During the inspection, BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharya, NE BJP Coordinator Sambit Patra, DGP Amitabha Ranjan, Chief Secretary JK Sinha was present along with CM Dr Saha.

In view of the sporadic incidents of post-poll violence across the state, the ruling BJP party’s state president Rajiv Bhattacharjee, Saturday warned of police action against the miscreants trying to damage the culture of violence-free election.

The ruling BJP party’s winning candidate from Suryamaninagar assembly constituency Ramprasad Paul, Saturday held the CPI(M) and its Left front responsible for political violence across the state.

Change of Chief Minister, resource mobilisation, Tipra Motha Party (TMP) factors, among other issues, facilitated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to retain power in Tripura and keep its winning momentum going in the northeastern region.