The Tripura unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has on Saturday announced the candidate list for the upcoming polls to 20 Urban Local Bodies including 51 wards Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC). The polls are scheduled to be held on November 25 next.
The party has given priority to the women and youths, mostly from the dedicated party Karyakartas.
Addressing a press conference, BJP state president Dr. Manik Saha has announced the candidates for the Agartala Municipal Corporation and six Nagar Panchayats while spokesman Subrata Chakraborty announced the names of the candidates for 13 municipal councils. The duo was accompanied by the party’s central observer to Tripura Vinod Sonkar.
Among the notables, the list for AMC included Dipak Majumder (ward- 16), Ratna Dutta (ward- 22) and Alok Bhattacharjee (ward- 21). As it seemed, the party will contest the polls with projecting a candidate for the position of Mayor although the candidate for the ward no – 5 is yet to be finalized.
Total 20 Urban Local Bodies– 13 Municipal Councils, six Nagar Panchayats and Agartala Municipal Corporation—will go to polls on November 25 next and the results will be declared on November 28 next.
A total of 5,94,772 voters – 2,93,979 males, 3,07,077 and 16 others—are eligible to cast their votes in these elections but what seemed unique was that the female voters outnumbered the total male voters in the urban areas. Polling will take place in 770 polling stations across the state.
According to State Election Commission sources, there are total 334 constituencies in the 20 urban Local Bodies, out of which eight are reserved for Scheduled Tribes, 85 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 157 constituencies are reserved for women.