Individuals wait to vote at a polling station within the Tripura Municipal Company election (File)
New Delhi:
Votes are being counted for elections to a number of civic our bodies together with Agartala Municipal Company, or AMC, in Tripura right now. The elections had been held amid fierce political battle between the state’s ruling BJP and the Trinamool Congress.
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The BJP is main in Ambassa, Jirania, Teliamura and Sabroom, the Tripura State Election Fee mentioned. That is the primary civic election that the BJP contested after coming to energy in Tripura in 2018.
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A complete of 334 seats can be found within the city native our bodies, together with AMC with 51 wards, 13 municipal councils, and 6 nagar panchayats.
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The BJP, underneath Chief Minister Biplab Deb, has fielded candidates in all of the seats and has already received 112 out of the 334 seats uncontested in AMC and 19 city native our bodies.
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Within the remaining 222 seats, some 785 candidates are in contest after 36 withdrew their nominations. The election was fought primarily between the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist), or CPI(M).
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The Trinamool Congress has demanded that the elections ought to be declared invalid, alleging they had been “closely rigged and lowered to a farce” by the ruling BJP. The CPI(M) has additionally demanded the identical in 5 wards of AMC.
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BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharya has mentioned the get together has requested its employees to keep up self-discipline. “Occasion karyakartas had been requested to observe the organisational custom after the announcement of the outcomes,” Mr Bhattacharya mentioned in a press release.
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There’s heavy safety deployment throughout the state. Hundreds of personnel from the Tripura State Rifles and central paramilitary forces have been deployed in delicate areas the place the counting centres are situated.
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There have been reviews of a collection of violent incidents in Tripura because the Trinamool Congress is making an attempt to realize foothold within the state forward of the 2023 meeting elections.
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Trinamool Congress chief Sayoni Ghosh, who was campaigning in Tripura, was arrested and accused of try and homicide on November 22. She was launched on bail a day later.
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On voting day earlier this week, the opposition events alleged BJP employees went round on bikes and intimidated their candidates. The CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress additionally alleged not all voters had been allowed to enter polling cubicles.
