Category: WEST TRIPURA

• AGARTALA
• JIRANIA
• MOHANPUR
• Khumulwng

Three more Tripura government employees including a security personnel have been suspended for participating in political events and election campaigns in violations of the model code of conduct (MCC), officials said on Monday.

Tripura Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Manik Saha on Monday said the unprecedented response from the people of Tripura and other parts of the country confirm that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get a third consecutive term.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Monday appealed to the voters of indigenous community people to keep trust in BJP and reject the ‘unholy’ Congress-CPI(M) alliance in the ensuing Lok Sabha election.

Following the protocol, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), Avinash Kanfade, extended financial assistance amounting to Rs 50, 000 to the deceased's family in the initial stage.

Dipak Majumder, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) nominated candidate for the 7th Ramnagar assembly constituency, commenced his door-to-door campaigning with fervor on Monday morning, starting from Meher Kalibari in the capital.

Biplab Kumar Deb, the BJP candidate for the West Tripura Lok Sabha seat, delivered a resolute address to a massive gathering at Khumulwng during the 'Nirbachani Janasabha' event, jointly organized by BJP, IPFT, and TIPRA Motha.

In a significant crackdown on illegal drug trade, the Tripura Police conducted a successful raid in the late hours of Sunday night and sezied over 7000 bottles of banned cough syrups worth Rs 50 lakh and arrested one.

In a heartbreaking turn of events, the lifeless body of twenty-year-old housewife Jayanti Debnath has been discovered under a bridge in the Baldakhal area of the capital.

In a fervent display of support for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates Biplab Kumar Deb and Kriti Singh Debbarma, lawyers took to the streets in Tripura, rallying behind the party's vision for development.

The Tripura Chief Secretary J K Sinha on Monday launched the ‘Mission Violence Free Elections 2024’ here at Agartala and advised all stakeholders to ensure peaceful voting in the upcoming Lok Sabha election by taking a cue from the 2023 assembly election.

Tripura opposition leader Jitendra Choudhury said on Monday that the “BJP cheating people came to power in Tripura and for the past six years is befooling the ‘Aam Aadmi’ (common man)".

The incident underscores the persistent challenge of human-elephant conflicts in the northeastern states like Assam and Tripura, where encounters between humans and tuskers frequently occur due to habitat encroachment and resource scarcity.

Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Monday said that the alliance between Congress and Left parties would take the communists to ‘graveyard’ and even the CPI-M Tripura state Secretary would sell the state party headquarters building.

Writing a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of the state commission on Sunday, Jiten stated, “It seems that some of the BLOs are over-enthusiastic to openly work for the ruling BJP.”

BJP State President Rajib Bhattacharya launched scathing criticisms against the Congress and CPI(M), demanding that they atone for what he termed an "unholy alliance" and present their apologies to the public.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Sunday slammed the CPIM and Congress for exploiting the indigenous people of Tripura for vote bank politics.

Assam Rifles seized 188 kgs Marijuana worth Rs 84.60 Lakh from general area Apurba Shil, Tripura on 07 April 2024.

The Election Commission Of India (ECI) has directed the Chief Electoral Officer of Tripura to cover every polling station under Webcasting for proper monitoring.

Union minister Pratima Bhoumik on Sunday asserted that BJP is fighting the Lok Sabha elections focussing ‘Modi Guarantee’ alone and said that her party has just shown a trailer of development and would provide the quantum leap in the coming days.

Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on Saturday that the Communists who were in power in Tripura for 25 years cannot even find a candidate to contest the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat.

The former Chief Minister of the then Left front government and also the CPI(M) Politburo member Manik Sarkar on Saturday campaigned for the Congress and I.N.D.I.A bloc candidate Ashish Kumar Saha here at Agartala Bankumar bazar and asked the CPI(M) leaders and workers to vote for the Congress leader Ashish Kumar Saha in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

This list features 40 prominent figures who will be actively campaigning for their candidate, Asish Kumar Saha, contesting from the West Parliamentary Constituency.

A woman was apprehended by Tripura Police in Agartala City's Guala Basti, near the Khejur Bagan area, for her alleged involvement in drug trafficking. Identified as Kala Devi, she had reportedly been operating covertly in the trade for an extended period.

Terming CPI(M) and Congress sinking ships, Tripura Agriculture and Power Minister and senior BJP leader Ratan Lal Nath on Saturday said that candidates of both these parties would lose their security deposit in the two Lok Sabha seats of the state.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Friday took a dig at the opposition CPI(M) and the Congress party over unleashing terror tactics in Tripura during the past elections and claimed that the PM Modi-led government has shown real democracy with violence-free elections.