Ratan Chakraborty

The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) on Saturday held discussions among its members asking them to cease internal squabble following announcement of names of candidates.

A fight between two aspiring candidates of Congress has left six persons injured in the Khayerpur area of eastern part of Agartala on Wednesday. The administration has set up temporary police pickets in the area to defuse tension.

The Tripura legislative assembly on Friday elected the former minister of Congress-TUJS coalition government and veteran politician ratan chakraborty as new speaker without any contest.

BJP-led NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to visit Tripura on July 5 to garner support for her candidature, Assembly Speaker ratan chakraborty said. The Presidential election will be held on July 18.“Droupadi Murmu is arriving here on July 5 as part of the campaign.

Agartala: CM Manik Saha, who won the byelection from Town Bardowali assembly seat, will take oath as MLA on July 8, Tripura speaker ratan chakraborty said on Monday. Saha met Rajya Sabha chairman and VP M Venkiah Naidu in Delhi on Monday and tendered his resignation as Rajya Sabha MP. PTI

A BJP legislator from Tripura, Atul Debbarma, resigned from the assembly on Monday. The term of the current assembly will end on March 22. In a letter addressed to Speaker ratan chakraborty, Debbarma did not cite any reason for his resignation, but he has been dropped from the list of nominees by the BJP and the RSS. Debbarma was brought to Tripura before the 2018 assembly polls and was fielded from the Krishnapur St reserved constituency of Khowai district last time. He was neither included in the cabinet nor given any respectful position in the party or in governance.

Tripura chief minister Manik Saha on Friday took the oath of office as a legislator of the assembly at a simple function in the assembly lobby. He was administered the oath by speaker ratan chakraborty where all the cabinet ministers and leaders of the state BJP were present.

The opposition Congress in Tripura on Sunday suffered a jolt as over 500 activists of the party today joined the newly-formed state unit of the Trinamool Congress, party sources said.

The opposition CPM members staged a walk-out on Friday protesting against the violence and attacks on them on the first day of the monsoon session after an adjournment motion of party MLA Sudhan Das was turned down by the speaker.

The Power Engineers’ Association of Tripura on Tuesday demanded a public apology from deputy speaker of the state assembly, Biswa Bandhu Sen, for his insulting remarks against the engineers’ fraternity last week at a public meeting.

Ahead of the assembly election, BJP in Tripura on Wednesday saw one more legislator quitting the party and the membership of the house. This is the fifth time that the ruling party has seen the exit of a sitting MLA from its fold since it came to power in 2018.

Tripura, along with the rest of the country, on Friday celebrated the 51st Victory Day or Vijay Diwas to commemorate the bravery and sacrifices of those who fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak war that led to the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation.

BJP MLAs Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha on Monday resigned from the Tripura assembly, and also gave up the membership of their party.

A 25-year-old inmate was allegedly beaten to death in a free drug rehabilitation centre at Belgharia on the northern fringes of the city on Tuesday morning, barely four days after he had been admitted there.

Barring chief minister Manik Saha, three newly elected MLAs, including lone winner of Congress and former minister Sudip Roy Barman, were administered the oath of office as legislators in the assembly lobby by speaker ratan chakraborty at a simple function.

The EC issued a direction to restart summary revision, which concluded on October 19 last after the meeting with the Congress delegation on Thursday.

A runaway couple, with just a few thousand rupees in hand, who had rented a house in Behala, apparently killed themselves two days after moving into the Becharam Chatterjee Road address. Though no suicide note was found, cops suspect that it was a suicide pact.

Tripura gymnast Deepa Karmakar's success in the Commonwealth Games on Thursday is being celebrated across the state.

"She is the golden girl of the country who made all Indians proud with her performance in gymnastics and she should be made the brand ambassador of our country. I would raise the issue in the next session of Parliament," Banerjee said.

Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian woman Olympian in gymnastics who finished fourth in the Rio Games, should be made the brand ambassador of India, former Indian football captain Prasun Banerjee said here today.

A week-long traditional Kharchi festival — offering prayer to 14 gods and goddess — began on Thursday with thousands of devotees converging at Khayerpur on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday announced that it would launch a continuous movement in Tripura to 'restore democracy' by ousting the Left Front government in the assembly election of 2018.

Accompanied by several Congress functionaries, the 66-year-old legislator submitted his resignation to assembly secretary Bishnu Pada Karmakar in speaker ratan chakraborty’s absence.

The ruling BJP’s legal cell served a second notice in a week to the state secretary of CPM in Tripura, Jitendra Chowdhury, for his social media posts allegedly libelous to the speaker of the legislative assembly and MLAs of the state government.

TMC leader Asish Das, apparently upset over elevation of Subal Bhowmik to the post of the party’s Tripura unit president, quit the Mamata Banerjee-led camp on Friday.

CPM's candidate for West Tripura parliamentary constituency Shankar Prasad Datta and BJP nominee Sudhindra Dasgupta on Tuesday filed their nomination before returning officer Abhishek Singh.

On Monday, the fate of 13 candidates vying for one of Tripura's two Lok Sabha constituencies was sealed.While CPM is confident of winning comfortably, the party has reason to feel apprehensive.