Tripura: Left Front announces candidates on all 60 assembly seats

Prabin Kalita / TNN / Jan 23, 2018, 16:26 IST

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Tripura: Left Front announces candidates on all 60 assembly seats

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GUWAHATI: The ruling Left Front of Tripura on Tuesday declared its list of candidates for all the 60 seats of the assembly to which elections will be held on February 18. The senior LF partner, CPI(M) will contest in 57 seats while its partners CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP will contest in one seats each.
This assembly election will turn out to be a make-or-break battle for the Left Front, which has been in power since 1993, as a determined BJP is making all-out effort to take the reins of power in the fifth northeastern state after Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, which also goes to poll next month.
Chief minister Manik Sarkar has been re-nominated for Dhanpur seat, from where he has been winning since 1998. CPI(M) has fielded 12 new faces this time.
BJP has struck an alliance deal with the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT). The Congress continues to be in wilderness and has proposed a third front with three tribal parties.

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Prabin Kalita

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.

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