Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

“We shall not compromise with the Greater Tipraland demand,” he said, adding that the one last fight of the TIPRA Motha seeking constitutional rights for the indigenous tribes needs to be strengthened further.

Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav laid the foundation stone of states first 100 bedded Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital in Tripura in a virtual event held today.

India during its one-year tenure of G20 presidency will showcase the North-East part of the country. North-East India has remained unexplored by many despite its breathtaking beauty and rich cultural heritage.

The assembly polls in four northeastern states -- Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram -- in 2023 are expected to predict the electoral fortunes of the BJP, Congress and other parties in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in the mountainous region.

This election in two of the three northeastern states - Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland will prove to be a litmus test for Trinamool Congress (TMC), headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

At one time the Congress governed almost all the northeastern states, but the grand old party will now battle for survival in the three election bound states -- Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland. In Mizoram assembly polls will be held at the end of this year.

Going by the West Bengal line, arch rivals Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left parties for the first time in the over seven decades old political history of Tripura, have decided to make seat adjustments and contest the forthcoming Tripura assembly elections together.

The Rangoli Festival organized on the premises of Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan, Agartala today, was attended by the Chief Secretary J.K. Sinha, Chief Electoral Officer Kiran Gitte, DM, West Tripura Debapriya Bardhan and other officials.

Meanwhile, claiming that the BJP party is least bothered to the activities of the oppositions, Dr. Saha said, “While the opposition are confined to their party office and cadres, the BJP is working on the fields to maximize the people’s support and blessings.”

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.