Tripura Assembly

Agartala, Feb 16: All preparations for conducting peaceful elections to the 60-member Tripura Assembly, which goes to polls on Thursday, has been completed, according to Election Commission. Arch rivals for a long time, Congress and Left have joined hands to dislodge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power in the northeastern state.

In this triangular contest, the ruling BJP and its alliance partner Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) are pitted against the Left-Congress alliance and TIPRA Motha, the newest regional party in the state.

Also Read: 60 seats, 259 candidates, 3-cornered fight: Stage set for Tripura polls

The BJP is contesting on 55 seats and its ally on six seats as both parties have fielded their candidates from the Ampinagar constituency. The Left – which includes the CPM, Forward Bloc, Communist Party of India (CPI), and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) – will contest 47 seats while Congress in 13 seats. The TIPRA Motha, headed by royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, will contest in 42 seats.

The counting of votes will be done on March 2.

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  • Total voting up to 4 pm is 81.10% across the state.
  • Total voting up to 3.00 pm is 69.96% (approx) across the state.
  • Total voting up to 1.00 pm is 51.42% (approx) across the state.
  • Tipra Motha leader Pradyot Manikya Debbarma casts his vote in Mandai Bazar (ST) Assembly Constituency.
  • Voters of Raima Assembly Constituency traveling by boats in Dumbur Lake in the Dhalai district of Tripura to cast their votes during Assembly Elections 2023

  • Total voting up to 11 am is 32.12%(approx) across the state.
  • Transgender voters queue up in Aralia

  • Former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar has alleged attack on polling agents of the Left, claiming they were “thrown out” of polling booths in Dhanpur. He also alleged violence at Udaipur in Gomati district. Sarkar earlier voted in Agartala.
  • Agartala, Tripura | LoP and former CM Manik Sarkar casts his vote in Assembly elections

  • Huge response from the voters of Badarghat Assembly Constituency seen in Kabiraj Tilla High School Polling Station in Agartala during Tripura Assembly Elections 2023
  • Total voting up to 9 am is 13.92%(approx)
  • All 3,337 polling stations are covered by Web Casting and Micro Observers for transparency in the polling process. The live streaming is monitored at the level of Returning Officers, District Magistrates, and the Election Commission.
  • Enthusiasm amongst female voters in Barjala Constituency during Tripura Assembly Elections! High turnout of female voters is testimony to the free and fair assembly elections being conducted in Tripura
  • Security personnel helping age-old voters in Gachiram Para High School under Kanchanpur Assembly Constituency of North Tripura district

  • Model Polling Stations were set up in Ramnagar High School in Agartala city where the voters from 7 Ramnagar Assembly Constituency and 8 Town Bordwali Assembly Constituency are exercising their franchise in a festive mood

  • A long queue of Women voters seen at Charipara area in Badarghat Assembly Constituency in West Tripura district
  • Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha casts vote in Agartala.

  1. Voters from the International Border area are on the way to cast their vote.

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi Urges People Of Tripura To Vote.

  • Tripura CM Manik Saha says, “more than 100% confident for the victory.”
  • Voting for the 60 Assembly seats of Tripura begins; the fate of 259 candidates in the fray. counting of votes on March 2.
  • Polling to begins at 7 am. Long queues outside polling booths
  • A total of 259 candidates, including 20 women, are in the fray. The counting of votes will be done on March 2.