Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

Ali and Bhowmik joined the BJP at the party headquarters in Delhi in presence of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, state party president Rajib Bhattacharjee, and the party's spokesperson and northeastern states' in-charge Sambit Patra.

The Tripura Assembly election schedule, announced by the Election Commission on January 18, remains unchanged, Chief Electoral Officer Gitte Kirankumar Dinkarrao said on Friday, citing "confusing posts" on various social media sites.

With the BJP-led Central government rejecting its separate "Greater Tipraland" state demand, the influential Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) announced to contest the February 16 Tripura Assembly elections alone, leading to a new political dimension ahead of the polls.

According to sources, most of the 60 candidates' names will be finalised and announced after the meeting. "Strategy will be made to win the election with a majority, and there will be brainstorming on Meghalaya and Nagaland Assembly elections too," a source said.

In a major boost to ruling BJP ahead of February 16 Tripura Assembly polls, CPI(M) MLA Moboshar Ali, senior Congress leader Billal Mia and few other leaders are likely to join the saffron party in Delhi, party sources said here on Friday.

As per party sources, a detailed discussion on each candidate took place on Thursday during the core group meeting and a list of candidates prepared for discussion in the CEC meeting.

Ahead of Assembly elections in Tripura, the state BJP core group met Union Minister Amit Shah in the national capital on Thursday and discussed the poll strategy.

The 74th Republic Day is celebrated across the state with patriotic fervour on Thursday. Celebrations began with the unfurling of the National Flag at residential houses, government and semi-government offices, business complexes, and street corners.

According to a source, a detailed discussion on each candidate would take place and a short list of candidates will also be prepared to discuss in the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting.

Eleven distinguished personalities from the northeast have been conferred the Padma Shri award on occasion of Republic Day 2023. Debbarma and Wangchu will be posthumously awarded the Padma prize.

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.