Agartala, 18 Jan 2023:
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the polling dates for 3 northeastern states— Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland.
Addressing a press conference, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said the voting in Tripura will take place on February 16, while Nagaland and Tripura will vote on February 27. The results of all the assembly polls will be declared on March 2.
Tripura, where the BJP is currently in power, goes to the hustings on February 16. Counting of votes will take place on March 2. Tripura’s assembly session will end on March 22 this year.
The Legislative Assembly of Tripura is 60-member strong. The BJP-Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) alliance swept the 2018 Tripura assembly polls, winning a two-third majority in the 60-member House, ending the 25-year-long Left rule in the state.
Of the 60 seats on offer, the BJP had won 35, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) bagged 16, IPFT won 8 while the Congress drew a nil.
Tripura will have 3,328 polling stations across the state.
This time, an incumbent BJP will face a triangular contest with the Left-Congress combine and the Trinamool Congress. The BJP has 34 MLAs in the 60-member assembly, while its ally IPFT has five.
TRIPURA ELECTIONS
Date: Feb 16
Counting of votes: March 2
Seats: 60 ACs
Date of Issue of Gazette Notification: January 21 (Saturday)
Last Date of Making Nominations: January 30 (Monday)
Last Date for Withdrawal of Candidatures: February 2 (Thursday)
The five-year term of assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura would end on March 12, March 15 and March 22, respectively, and before that period, new assemblies have to be constituted.
