In a last ditch attempt, Home Minister Amit Shah would hold a meeting with the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), which played a significant role in the February 16 Assembly polls, emerging as the second single largest party securing 13 of the 20 vital tribal reserved seats in Tripura.
The 70-year-old BJP leader, who was also the state unit chief of the BJP and Rajya Sabha member for a brief period, took oath as the chief minister last year on May 15, a day after former chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from the top post.
Expressing concern over the sporadic incidents of violence across the state following the poll results, the leaders of the Left-Congress venture, Monday sought the intervention of the Director General of Police and demanded independent police action in mitigating violence.
Dr. Manik Saha, will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of the second term of the BJP-IPFT government on March 8. BJP won 32 seats while its junior partner IPFT swept one out of five seats in the recently concluded assembly election.
A swearing-in-ceremony of the new Chief Minister and the council of ministers will take place on Wednesday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President J.P. Nadda are slated to be in attendance.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma along with BJP president J.P. Nadda met Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Sunday to discuss the formation of new governments in Tripura and Nagaland.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday claimed that since the announcement of the February 16 assembly election results on March 2 which indicated that the BJP secured a majority, over 668 incidents of violence have taken place in Tripura.
However, some local parties including the influential tribal-based Tipra Motha Party (TMP) and the ruling BJP's ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura during the election campaign in Tripura highlighted the CAA issue.
A meeting of newly elected MLAs and leaders was held in Agartala on Sunday. BJP's northeast in-charge Sambit Patra, Manik Saha, BJP President Rajib Bhattacharjee, and Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik among others were present in the meeting.
During the inspection, BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharya, NE BJP Coordinator Sambit Patra, DGP Amitabha Ranjan, Chief Secretary JK Sinha was present along with CM Dr Saha.
In view of the sporadic incidents of post-poll violence across the state, the ruling BJP party’s state president Rajiv Bhattacharjee, Saturday warned of police action against the miscreants trying to damage the culture of violence-free election.
The ruling BJP party’s winning candidate from Suryamaninagar assembly constituency Ramprasad Paul, Saturday held the CPI(M) and its Left front responsible for political violence across the state.
Change of Chief Minister, resource mobilisation, Tipra Motha Party (TMP) factors, among other issues, facilitated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to retain power in Tripura and keep its winning momentum going in the northeastern region.
Assam Chief Minister and NEDA Convener Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday reiterated that there will be no talk with TIPRA Motha that will divide the state of Tripura as the state will remain united.
But in some places opposition political workers are provoking people and spreading rumors to gain personal benefit to disrupt peace and harmony. But nobody will be spared as already more than 200 people were arrested for involving in violence and spreading rumors”.
Situation heated up in Indranagar area under the 6-Agartala Assembly Constituency after a party office of ruling BJP has allegedly vandalized by CPIM and Congress workers yesterday late night.
Headed by former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman, the TMP, which came to the forefront before the TTAADC polls in April 2021, pushed the CPI-M and the Congress into third and fourth positions, respectively, in the elections.
The Supreme Court has said that corruption is a malaise, the presence of which is all pervading in every walk of life and it is not now limited to the spheres of activities of governance and regrettably, responsible citizens say it has become a way of one's life.
The Trinamool Congress which contested 56 of the 60 seats in Meghalaya and 28 of the 60 seats in Tripura secured five seats and 13.78 per cent votes in Meghalaya and only 0.88 per cent votes in Tripura, where 1.36 per cent votes were polled for NOTA (None Of The Above).
Days ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8, good news from three northeastern states -- Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland -- that 14 women were elected to the state assemblies in the recent polls against six women legislators in the outgoing houses.
The SDM of Shantirbazar sub-division, also the Returning Officer A Baidya on Friday sought an early enquiry from the SDPO over the violence incident took place at Shantirbazar subdivision on Thursday last in the day of poll counting inside the SDM office.
This order shall be valid from 06:00 P.M of 3rd March, 2023 to 06:00 A.M of 4th March. Any person violating this order shall be prosecuted u/s 188 of I.P.C. The Superintendent of Police, West Tripura District is directed to ensure strict implementation of this order.
Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Friday gave a stern warning to the opposition political party workers for unleashing violence on BJP workers. He however claimed that launching attacks and carrying out violence are the habits of opposition political parties.
Appreciating and thanking the voters who voted for the candidates of anti-BJP, the Left front convenor in his statement said, “Due to the division of anti-BJP votes among various non-BJP political parties, the BJP managed to win a majority of seats to form government.”
Day after the declaration of the results of the Tripura Legislative Assembly elections, the outgoing Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha of the then BJP led coalition government on Friday tendered his resignation with the governor Satyadeo Narain Arya at Raj Bhawan here at Agartala.
