Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

A press release from Assam Rifle said that the Agartala battalion of Assam Rifles destroyed large scale plantation of Marijuana (Ganja) worth 95 lakhs market values in Sitakala Konaban area, Sepahijala district, Tripura today.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Saturday has termed the alliance of CPIM and Congress as ‘unholy alliance’ which will lose many seats in the upcoming election as people are now aware about their drama.

Former Chief Minister and Member of Parliament Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday claimed that the forthcoming assembly elections of Tripura will the ‘final journey’ of CPIM while Congress will be in posters only.

The ruling BJP party sounded confident of the ruling party bettering its seats tally in the 2023 Assembly elections with the successive end of the party’s ‘Jana Biswas Yatra’.

He said, “I propose to unite IPFT and TIPRA in any form for solving the question of survivability and existence of the Tiprasas with an endeavour of achieving our demand for "Tipraland' State or 'Greater Tipraland' State.”

The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur called upon the youth to contribute to making the country self-reliant and contribute to nation-building.

All India Congress Committee Tripura In-charge Ajoy Kumar, Left Front Convener Narayan Kar, and CPIM state committee secretary Jitendra Choudhury today held a meeting at the CPIM state party office to chalk out strategies for the upcoming poll to defeat BJP in Tripura.

The BJP's national president J.P.Nadda on Thursday lambasted the Congress and CPI-M leaders for the alleged corruption and incompetence of their governments and asked them to take rest at home for a while and let the BJP continue its development work.

All political parties and candidates will have to publish criminal antecedents of their candidates at least three times in newspapers, television channels and on their websites, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said here on Thursday.

Amid the allegation of deteriorating law and order situation by the opposition parties in Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that no political violence occurred in the state after the BJP formed government.

Amid the allegation of ‘massive poll violence’ and ‘deterioration of law and order situation’ in Tripura by the opposition political parties, the Election Commission of India (ECI), Thursday said that the commission is ‘committed and duty-bound’ to ensure free and fair elections in Tripura.

The Election Commission of India, led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar along with Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel, arrived in Agartala on Wednesday on a two day visit to review the poll preparedness for the forthcoming Assembly Elections 2023

Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarter on Wednesday morning Yechury said, “We are ready to go for an electoral alliance with the forces which are against the politics of terror existing in the state of Tripura.”

Hailing the BJP-led coalition government in Tripura, the actor-turned politician Mithun Chakraborty on Wednesday said, “I have seen massive development that took place during the last five years under the rule of the BJP government.”

Setting an example beside the political sphere, the Tripura Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Wednesday visited his old workplace here at Agartala Tripura Medical College (TMC) hospital and performed a dental surgery.

CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, while referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement regarding completion of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, said that the BJP is polarising people on communal lines ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

With barely a month left for the crucial assembly election in Tripura, the BJP-led coalition government on Wednesday formed a three-member committee headed by a retired high court judge to look into the issues of 10,323 retrenched teachers.

The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal today said that Tripura is to be connected with Sittwe Port in Myanmar through India Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) Route.

In the meeting, Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said that this fair will be organized more beautifully and successfully than the previous days with everyone's opinion.

PIB Agartala Media and Communication Officer Gopjit Das (IIS) welcomed everyone at the beginning of the workshop. Representatives of various newspapers and electronic media of Agartala participated in this one day workshop.

Union Minister of State for Law and Justice, Kiren Rijiju today claimed that the face of Tripura completely changed after BJP formed the government in 2018. He also lashed CPIM and Congress government for not carry out developmental works in the state.

“Wherever I am visiting I can feel the faith and trust of people over the party which has significantly increased. Our party always works for the people and for 365 days our government is working for the betterment of the people. People are also happy with the work of our government”, he claimed.

The leader of the opposition BJP in West Bengal Subhendu Adhikari on Tuesday termed the Trinamool Congress as a ‘company’ in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the owner while the general secretary of the party Abhishek Banerjee is ‘managing director.

Weeks before the announcement of the Assembly election schedule by the Election Commission, central armed police forces (CAPF) have started arriving in three poll-bound states of Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya, officials said on Monday.

The Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Narayan Rane on Monday said that the Union government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is providing necessary support to build a self-reliant India as well as Tripura to build a self-reliant state.