Agartala, June 03: Congress on Saturday announced candidates for the June 23 bypolls — Sudip Roy Barman in Agartala seat and Ashish Kumar Saha in Town Bordowali constituency respectively.
Political pundits say that the through-elections to 4 Assembly seats might be a multi-cornered contest among the ruling BJP, and the CPI-M-led Left Front, the Congress, and the Trinamool Congress and those bypolls are taken into consideration as a semi-very last earlier than the subsequent 12 months’s fashionable elections to 60-seat Tripura Assembly.
The competition Congress could additionally announce the names of the applicants on Saturday or Sunday, though, celebration reassets showed that Ashish Kumar Saha could contest from Town Bordowali seat and Sudip Roy Barman could contest from his vintage seat Agartala constituency.
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Both ruling and competition events commenced their annoying marketing campaign at once after the Election Commission introduced the agenda of the politically essential through-elections on May 25.
According to the EC’s agenda, the closing date of submitting of nomination is June 6, the scrutiny might be carried out on tomorrow and the closing date of withdrawal of nomination is June 9. The votes might be counted on June 26.
The bypolls had been necessitated after the resignation of 3 BJP MLAs, and the demise of CPI-M legislator Ramendra Chandra Debnath.
Amid open resentment through a phase of BJP legislators towards then CM Deb, 3 MLAs, Roy Barman (Agartala), Ashish Kumar Saha (Town Bordowali), Ashis Das (Surma), cease the BJP and the meeting.
Roy Barman, additionally a former BJP minister, and Saha joined the Congress in February this 12 months even as Das joined Trinamool Congress closing 12 months.
Elected from the Jubarajnagar constituency six times, Debnath become meeting speaker a couple of times. He handed away on February 2 in Kolkata because of kidney failure.
