Politics / Tripura

Agartala, Jan. 27: Blood stained Tripura?s run-up to the Assembly elections with suspected militants killing 11 supporters of the ruling CPM and their family members after picking them out from a non-tribal area. The massacre occurred last night in West Tripura?s Bankim Nagar, 30 km from Agartala, despite security alerts about possible militant strikes on or before Republic Day.

The CPM had also appealed to the Election Commission last week to step up security arrangements in Tripura in the wake of attacks on party workers.

The commission today asked the states, including Tripura, Nagaland...

JIRANIA, Jan 27 ? Suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) (Biswamohan) militants massacred 11 non-tribals including women and children at Mandai Choumuhani, Jirania, in West Tripura district on the night of Republic Day celebration. Six more were injured in the attack and three of them are in serious condition, doctors said. All the deceased and injured were CPI(M) supporters. The area where the attack was committed is about 32 kms from capital Agartala and only about 6 kms from infamous Mandai where the 1980 June riots had taken place to mark the beginning of protracted...

AGARTALA, Jan 25? Congress released its candidate list for 42 constituencies out of total 60 list Friday night after three months long brainstorming meetings and discussions in New Delhi and Agartala. And with the announcement, as it was anticipated, serious reactions sparked off in various constituents as rival factions of the nominated candidates express their resentment through protest march. There were also reports of crude bombs going off and putting the Congress offices under lock and key by agitated party workers. There were more than 245 aspirants belonging to various groups. As...

Agartala, Jan. 24: The Congress finally announced its list of candidates for the Assembly elections in Tripura today. The party has put up 42 candidates for the polls, having already allotted the other 18 seats in the 60-member House to its alliance partner, the Indigenous National Party of Tripura.

Tripura PCC president Birajit Sinha, who returned from New Delhi with the list approved by AICC chief Sonia Gandhi today, released the list to newspersons. All 13 sitting MLAs of the party have been re-nominated. The list contains 19 new candidates and six women.

The party manifesto would be...

AGARTALA, Jan 23 ? The Election Commission has removed the IGP (Law and order) TK Sanyal from his present posting following allegation from the opposition parties in the State. The Opposition parties Congress, its ally INPT and other political parties alleged that Sanyal was working at the instance of the ruling Left Front, and he might use the police and other armed force under his charge TSR, against the Opposition party workers. They had also submitted a memorandum demanding his removal when CEC JM Lyngdoh visit the State on January 16 last. He was recently brought to the post in place of...

Agartala, Jan. 22: The powerful but rival militant outfits, the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All-Tripura Tiger Force, have made their stands clear ahead of the Assembly polls in the state in February.

The NLFT has already revealed its animosity towards the ruling Left Front, systematically killing tribal leaders and workers of the CPM. Sources said the killings are part of its programme to help the outfit?s alleged political front, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura, garner tribal votes through intimidation.

Its bitter rival, the Tiger Force, has asked the people to...

AGARTALA, Jan 21 ? In what can be called as ?Congress syndrome? serious resentment dogs the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura over its candidate selection of the 16 ST seats out of 18 in which it would contest. There are total 20 ST reserved seats in the 60 member Assembly. The INPT has left two seats Pecharthal and Golaghati to its electoral ally Congress.

The INPT announced its list for 16 constituencies on Friday last. The party, despite series of brain storming meetings by its central election committee could not finalise the remaining two seats Jolaibatri and Asharambari in view of...

Agartala, Jan. 20: The Election Commission?s decision keeping Tripura State Rifles jawans out of active poll duty has sparked a major controversy here. Nagarik Mancha (citizens? forum), a non-political body aimed at mobilising public opinion against militancy, demanded a review of the decision and reinstatement of the TSR for election-related duties.

During its daylong visit here on Thursday, the Election Commission comprising chief election commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh, election commissioners T.S. Krishnamurthy and B.B. Tandon and deputy election commissioner Sayan Chatterjee announced that...

AGARTALA, Jan 20? Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh on Thursday night said here that all measures had been ensured to conduct free and fair polls in the state on February 26 next. Addressing a press conference at Circuit House here last night the CEC, flanked by his Election Commissioners T S Krishnamurthy and B B Tandon said, the poll process is going on, smoothly and the election will be conducted in free and fair manner. The CEC also expressed hope that the Central Government would send additional paramilitary force for the Tripura polls. ?The Ministry of Home Affairs is very...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 ? The Opposition Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) yesterday announced its candidates for 16 seats out of 18 in which they would fight against the Left Front. The candidates for the two seats Jolaibari and Asharambari will be announced later, said party?s general secretary Rabindra Debbarma. The party has left two ST reserved constituencies Pecharthal and Golaghati to Congress.

Apparently dogged by the ?Congress syndrome? in view of presence of more than one aspirant, the INPT failed to reach a consensus as to who should be nominated in the two remaining...