New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday will release its manifesto for Tirpura polls today. BJP national President JP Nadda will be in state capital, Agartala today where he will offer prayers at Mata Tripura Sundari temple after which he will release the manifesto, reported news agency ANI. The saffron party has been in power in the northeastern state since 2018, ending the 25-year-long-Left regime.
The polls to the 60-member Tripura Legislative Assembly will take place on February 16 and the votes will be counted on March 2. The BJP has put up candidates in 55 seats and has left five seats for its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura.
On Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited the state and held an election rally at Suryamaninagar where he said that the speed of the double-engine government was felt during the COVID-19 pandemic when people were getting free vaccines, free treatment and free food.
Had the Congress or the CPI(M) been in power in the state, people would have been deprived of those items, the senior BJP leader claimed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also visit the state on February 11 and February 13 where he will address two election rallies, sources told ABP News. On February 11, Modi is scheduled to hold poll campaigns in Gomati and Dhalai districts of the north eastern states while he will address an election campaign in capital city Agartala on February 13.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah landed at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala on Sunday for two election rallies in the state. During an election rally in Agartala, Shah trained his gun against Communist Party of India (Marxist) saying that the party created controversies in the state while his party created trust.
In the 2018 Assembly election the BJP bagged 36 seats while its ally IPFT secured eight seats.