Agartala, Feb 16: With voting underway in Tripura for the assembly seats from 7 am on Thursday, sporadic incidents of violence have been reported across the state.
CPI-M alleged that BJP cadres have been preventing the voters from reaching polling stations in Ramnagar and Khayerpur constituencies and security forces are not adequate.
The central forces have been confined to the polling stations managing the booths while the state police and TSR personnel deployed on the road are being mute spectators.
The Ramnagar assembly seat in Tripura has been considered a stronghold of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M).
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The party held the seat continuously from 1993 to 2018, until it was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Sudip Roy Barman in 2018.
He won the seat with 33,726 votes, defeating the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Badal Choudhury, who received 28,251 votes. The Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Gopal Roy secured 1,482 votes and finished in third place.
