Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Wednesday appealed to the people of Tripura to vote for the BJP and claimed that Tripura emerged as the best state in the country in terms of infrastructural development.

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday claimed that the people of Tripura are now free from Extremism, Terrorism, and violence because in 2018 BJP formed its government.

Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday surfaced allegations against CPIM-led Left Front and Congress for misguiding the government employees and pensioners ahead of assembly polls slated to be held on February 16 next.

Slamming the seat-sharing understanding between CPIM and Congress, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Verma on Wednesday claimed that this opposition party can’t harm BJP in this assembly election as people have rejected them.

Under the 'vote-from-home' system, physically challenged (PwD), 80 plus senior citizens, and Covid suspect and affected voters were exercising their Right to Vote for the Tripura Assembly on Wednesday, officials said.

The last BJP manifesto for Tripura included promises like job creation, AIIMS like facilities in hospitals, pay matrix of the 7th Pay Commission, hiking monthly social pension to Rs 2,000, providing houses to 3.8 lakh families, and drinking water to 53 per cent households, among others.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that only the BJP has the will and ability to provide good governance and the party would get more than 50 seats in the February 16 elections to the 60-member Tripura assembly.

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday said that under the leadership and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party is moving ahead to fulfil the dream of developed Tripura.

According to a source in Tripura BJP, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tripura on February 11 and 13. The Prime Minister will address two election meetings at Gomti and Dhalai."

The Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday appealed to the voters to bloom two lotuses in two separate assembly constituencies at Kailasahar and claimed that development is progressing rapidly in Tripura.

He said, “Tripura had undergone massive transformation after the BJP came to power.” He claimed that Tripura has achieved a new identity because of the development work that the BJP government did in the last five years.

At least 54 persons were arrested while notice have been served to 314 persons after around 62 cases of political violence registered with police after declaration of election dates for Tripura Legislative assembly.

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.