Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, August 20: The Congress in Tripura is heading for a virtual split with its top leader and former chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Mazumder joining the Trinamul Congress headed by Mamata Banerjee. Mazumder, also a former Pradesh Congress Committee president and Rajya Sabha member, told newsmen here on Friday that Banerjee had appointed him as the chairman of the Trinamul Congress' Tripura unit. The names of other leaders of the state unit would be announced soon, he said. "I have been associated with the Congress since 1960. I remained a true Congressman though many leaders left the party...

AGARTALA, August 6: Four senior Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leaders were today kidnapped by militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) in Dhalai district, the police said. Two armed militants stormed a school run by the RSS nearly 82 miles away from the district headquarters and kidnapped the leaders at gun-point when they were inspecting the school without their securitymen.

AGARTALA, July 31: The ruling CPI(M) and Opposition Congress and BJP began the process of selection of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Tripura, . The Congress's main ally Tripura Upajati Juba Samity's meeting with the Nationalist Congress Party leader PA Sangma has been causing concern to the former. The TUJS had asked the Congress to allot the Tripura East (ST) seat to the tribal party. Its general secretary Rabindra Debbarma told newsmen here today that a delegation would soon visit New Delhi and meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi to stake a claim to the seat, reserved for...

AGARTALA, July 24: Tripura's jail affairs minister and veteran CPI leader Durbajoy Reang died on July 23 at his native village Laxmi Chara under Belonia subdivision in South Tripura district following a protracted illness. He was 78. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. Reang was suffering from liver cancer.

AGARTALA, July 23: The ruling Left Front in Tripura has landed in a crisis following an assault on an RSP minister allegedly by CPI(M) activists. Both the CPI(M) and its alliance partners are locked in a rift over the incident which has jolted the state's political circles. The state's food minister and senior RSP leader Gopal Das was assaulted on Wednesday, the last day of the three-tier panchayat polls at a polling centre in South Tripura district.

Agartala, July 15: The Tripura Pradesh Congress general secretary Ratan Lal Nath, MLA, has been expelled from the party for six years for questioning the credentials of party president Sonia Gandhi as a Prime Ministerial candidate. The TPCC spokesman Tapan Das said that the decision was conveyed to the state unit by the AICC on Thursday. Nath was not available for comment.

Agartala, July 16: Approximately 80 per cent of the electorate in Tripura cast their votes to elect 238 gram panchayats, 137 members of panchayat samitis and 39 members of zilla parishads in three districts during the first phase of the three-tier panchayat elections on Friday. The panchayat election commissioner B B Senapati said the polling for the first phase, which covered Dhalai, South Tripura and North Tripura districts, was peaceful. The second phase of polling will be held on July 19. Counting is scheduled to start on July 22. As many as 338 candidates for gram panchayats and 10 for...

New Delhi, July 12: The Supreme Court on Monday gave six weeks time to the Centre and the governments of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura to file affidavits on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking repatriation of over one crore Bangladeshi migrants illegally staying in India. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice AS Anand, justice M Jagannadha Rao and justice Santosh N Hedge, while giving the time, observed that matter was of serious nature and the States and the Centre should not delay it further. The PIL filed by All India Lawyers Forum for Civil Liberties...