Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

Born on February 23, 1961 in Rohtak, Justice Singh was elevated as a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 5, 2007. He enrolled himself as an advocate in 1986 and started practising law at the district courts of Sirsa.

A listed cadre of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT-PD) identified as Sarnajoy Reang associated with the Parimal Debbarma (PD) faction of the outfit has surrendered before the Assam Rifles of Agartala Sector on Wednesday.

The CPI-M-led, five-party Left Front would contest 47 seats in Tripura in the February 16 elections, leaving 13 seats to their new ally Congress, Left leaders announced here on Wednesday night.

In another development, Tripura BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Manik Saha, after holding an emergency meeting in Agartala left for Delhi on Wednesday to discuss with the central leaders about election strategies, and to finalise candidates' names.

The BJP leader also said that soon after the meeting the state senior BJP leaders left state and went to New Delhi to attend the parliamentary board meeting in which the final call on candidate’s list would be made.

The statement of the MLA came after a house of BJP worker reportedly set on fire on the wee hours of Wednesday allegedly by CPIM and Congress workers at Charipara area situated in the outskirt of Agartala city.

Security along the international borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar will be further tightened in view of the upcoming Assembly elections in the three northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, officials said on Wednesday.

Das went to a shop of a person and covered the PM's face with black ink on the poster, an official statement said. It said that after receiving this complaint from the BJP, the CEO investigated the matter and found that the sector officer did it illegally.

The detained was identified as Biman Das, resident of Agartala Gandhigram. Police said that one factory made Pistol with two magazines, 46 rounds (7.62mm) were seized from his possession.

The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) on Tuesday announced the examination schedule for both Madhayamik and Higher Secondary (HS+2), Madrasa Fazil Arts and Theology for the academic year 2022-2023.

Three special observers of the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday asked officials in Tripura to take foolproof steps to hold the February 16 Assembly polls in a free, fair and transparent manner.

Besides the special observers, the EC also appointed five other categories of observers - general observers, police observers, expenditure observers, micro observers in each polling station and counting observers.

Minister Nath further alleged that a section of civil administration officials engaged with election work intentionally covered the pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by putting ink on the pictures.

As the poll in Tripura’s 60 Assembly seats is slated to be held on February 16, the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) on January 25 would declare the name of the candidates for contesting the poll.

Speaking with TripuraIndia, an official from Chief Electoral office said that a special observer team of three members is coming to the state today to take stock of the overall situation in the state.

Tripura ruling coalition member Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) has been holding seat-sharing talks with both current ally BJP and opposition Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) for the February 16 assembly polls.

The erstwhile princely states of Tripura and Manipur were merged into the Indian Union in October 1949 and became full-fledged states on January 21, 1972. Meghalaya was part of Assam before becoming a full-fledged state on the same day.

The Trinamool Congress on Saturday said it will contest alone in the upcoming assembly polls in the north-eastern state of Tripura and will field the party's own candidates in all the 60 assembly constituencies there.

Displaying banners and placards with 'My Vote, My Right', 'Stop Poll Violence', thousands of opposition Congress and Left Front leaders, members and workers took out the rally with thousands of national flags.

The Election Commission (EC) has issued a statutory notification for the February 16 elections to the 60-member Tripura Assembly inviting the candidates to submit their nomination papers from Saturday, officials said.

Election officials said on Friday that to conduct the election, freely, fairly, fearlessly and inducement free, six types of observers have been appointed from among the in-service and retired IAS, IPS, IRS and other Central government officials.

Taking a stringent note of the political violence broke out in Jirania sub-division of Tripura on Wednesday last, the Election Commission of India on Friday ordered for removal of Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Jirania sub-division, and officers in charge of the Rani Bazar and Jirania police stations.

Addressing a press conference in the conference hall of the DM of West Tripura district, the CEO said, “All the incidents related to the election of the 8 districts of the state are under the notice of the commission and quick action will be taken in this regard.”

With the announcement of the assembly election in Tripura, the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress party is emerging as key rivalry for the ruling BJP party, while the TIPRA Motha regional party is eyeing towards joining the oppositions’ battle to take on the BJP party.

“We will not negotiate with our movement for any post or for any alliance and unless we get assurance in writing for our constitutional solution under Article 2 & 3 for Greater Tipraland, we will not forge alliance with any party,” Pradyot told reporters soon after the end of the meeting.