After the Left Front, Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) has announced complete list of candidates on Monday for upcoming District Council Polls in Tripura.
TPCC president Pijush Biswas announced the list of candidates for the Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections scheduled to be held on April 4 next.
Releasing the list of candidates, He said that the Congress would fight the polls on its own. The grand old party that failed to forge any alliance for upcoming TTAADC elections expressed confidence of good results.
“Altogether 81 names have been placed before the election committee of the Congress party and after a thorough scrutiny 28 names for 28 seats of the District Council have been finalized. Now, the party is preparing to hit the campaign trail”, said Biswas.
Notably, Congress had an alliance with regional party INPT which severed the tie with the party recently and forged an alliance with newly floated Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA). Former Congress ally, INPT will fight TTAADC polls as an ally of TIPRA.
Meanwhile, listing some of the potential candidates, he said, from Ampinagar Sanjib Kaloi had been fielded by the party who, till a few days back, was a IPFT village committee chairman. He had joined the Congress party and the party also decided to field him as a candidate.
Apart from that, Shyam Lal Debbarma and Ratna Shadhan Jamatia who had been nominated from Amtali-Golaghati and Killa-Bagma ADC constituencies were among the retrenched 10,323 teachers. There was only one woman candidate, he added.
On the key poll issues, he said, Congress is the only party that cares for the interests of indigenous parties. “We are working on our manifesto. We want to give direct funding to the ADC, we want to give health insurance for the rubber tappers that claims a considerable share of population living in the hills, better infrastructure roads connectivity, water connection etc are the key issues that we want to highlight”, said Biswas.