Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

A multi-cornered contest will be witnessed in 15 Lok Sabha seats in the eight northeastern states as the first phase of the 7-phase parliamentary elections is held on Friday.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Wednesday said that the 2024 Lok Sabha election holds significant importance in re-electing Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India for a third term and in making a corruption-free country and developed nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that his government closed the previous Congress government’s ‘Look East Policy’ and undertook the ambitious ‘Act East Policy’ to accelerate the ambitious development of the northeastern region.

The campaigning for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in 15 out of the total 25 Parliamentary constituencies in the eight northeastern states ended on Wednesday, an official said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his last election rally of the 18th Lok Sabha here at Agartala on Wednesday in support of the BJP candidates of both the East and West Tripura Parliamentary constituencies.

With the Lok Sabha elections inching closer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to campaign for NDA candidates in Assam and Tripura on Wednesday.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Lok Sabha elections are to protect democracy and the Indian constitution.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address an election rally at Swami Vivekananda Maidan in Agartala on Wednesday, the last day of the campaign for the first phase of the 7-phase Lok Sabha election.

The BJP candidate for the West Tripura parliamentary constituency and former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday took a dig at the poll manifesto of the opposition CPI(M) and said that the poll manifesto is an attempt to compromise with national security.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Tuesday visited Agartala Swami Vivekananda Ground to inspect the preparedness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally to be held on April 17.

According to a BJP leader, the Prime Minister’s flight will land at Borjhar airport in Guwahati in the evening and his cavalcade will travel to the city by road. PM Modi will also hold a roadshow in the city.

Veteran CPI-M politburo member and former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi can speculate on the number of seats his party or the NDA would get in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, "we cannot do this but the INDIA bloc's victory is certain".

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the Modi government has signed more than 10 accords in the northeast and facilitated over 10,000 insurgents to join the mainstream of life in different states of the region.

The Union Home Minister Amit Shah landed here at Agartala and addressed an election rally at Kumarghat in Unakoti district on Monday in support of the BJP candidate for the East Tripura constituency – Kriti Singh Debbarman.

Tripura BJP spokesman Subrata Chakraborty said that Prime Minister Modi would address a mega election rally at Swami Vivekananda Maidan in Agartala on April 17, the last date of campaigning for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19.

BJP sources in Imphal said that Home Minister Shah, one of the star campaigners of the ruling BJP, would address an election rally at the Hapta Kangjeibung ground, palace compound, in Imphal East district on Monday afternoon.

Tripura Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Saturday said that he is considering reopening all the political murder cases that occurred during the CPIM’s regime and would seek suggestions from legal experts after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha election.

Tripura's political landscape buzzed with anticipation as the ruling BJP, alongside its coalition partners Tipra Motha and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), convened for a strategic gathering following the recent visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said that it is more than 100 per cent confirmed that Narendra Modi would become Prime Minister for a third term. Also, the BJP would easily win the two Lok Sabha seats in the state but we are not taking the INDIA bloc lightly, he added.

Hectic preparations are underway ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's much-expected visit to Manipur and Tripura on Monday to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission on Friday cautioned BJP's Tripura East Lok Sabha candidate, Kriti Devi Debbarma, who had called the opposition CPI-M a "party of murderers".

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is scheduled to address an election rally and participate in a roadshow in Agartala on April 16, a party leader said on Friday.

A record number of over 20,000 security personnel comprising Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and state force personnel have been deployed in Tripura for the elections to two Lok Sabha constituencies and the by-poll in one Assembly seat in the state, officials said here on Friday.

Former Tripura Chief Minister and the BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Biplab Kumar Deb said that there is absolutely no anti-incumbency factor against the BJP or the Narendra Modi government in Tripura or the northeastern region.

Former BJP MLA and veteran lawyer Arun Chandra Bhowmik, who was expelled from the ruling party in November last year for anti-party activities, joined the Congress on Thursday.