Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

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.

Stepping up the election campaign in poll-bound Tripura, Union Minister and BJP Dhanpur Constituency Candidate Pratima Bhoumik held a door-to-door campaign in Dhanpur ahead of the Assembly Elections which is scheduled to be held on February 16.

As the state of Tripura gets ready for the assembly election slated to be held on February 16 next, a total of 28,13,478 voters are all set to decide the fate of a total 259 candidates of different political parties.

Tripura police on Wednesday late night arrested one person and sezied brown sugar worth lakh rupee. During interrogation it was found there were 121 grams of brown sugar kept worth lakh rupee.

Mayor of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) Dipak Majumder on Thursday claimed that people are coming out of home in support of BJP and Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha.

The CPI-M-led Left parties and the Congress, who earlier announced to contest jointly the February 16 elections to the 60-member Tripura assembly, on Thursday withdrew their candidates fielded against each other.

According to sources, after the Vijay Sankalp rally, BJP's Union ministers, senior leaders and chief ministers of other states, including Tripura, will make efforts to create an atmosphere in favour of the saffron party by holding 35 small and big rallies in the state.

Putting rest to all speculations, influential tribal-based party Tipra Motha Party (TMP) on Wednesday announced it would contest alone in the February 16 Tripura Assembly elections.

“The Congress and CPI(M) came together with an electoral understanding because of the BJP’s misrule in Tripura,” he said, adding that people of Tripura need to suffer for another five years if the BJP-IPFT is voted to power again.

The meeting was chaired by BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharya, Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, former chief minister and MP Biplab Kumar Deb, BJP Northeast Incharge Sambit Patra, BJP election in charge Dr. Mahendra Singh, and others.

Speaking with the media, Sushant said that since there was no program of the opposition party, Congress and CPM have chosen various anti-social activities starting from burning the booth office of the ruling party as their party program.

BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee today said that people are ready to bloom the lotus again in Tripura. Bhattacharjee said this during his door-to-door campaign in his Banamalipur Assembly Constituency today.

In this context, Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress tweeted, "New era of development is coming to Tripura following @MamataOfficial's ideology. Several top leaders of TMC are going to campaign in Tripura with a message of change ahead of the assembly elections”.

As per a press release issued from office of Chief Electoral Office (CEO) the State Excise Organization seized 2032.165 litres of illicit liquor on January 31 throughout the State which value stands to Rs. 5,12,617.