Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 16 (ANI): The polling for the Tripura Meeting elections started amid tight safety on Thursday.
In Tripura’s Belonia space, an octogenarian woman went to the polling station to solid her vote.
Central Armed Police Forces personnel (CAPF) helped the 85-year-old girl to enter the polling sales space at 37/7 in Saashima Excessive College in South Belonia, Tripura.
The voting began at 7 am and can proceed until 4 pm.
In accordance with Election Fee, over 28.14 lakh electorates of which 14,15,233 are male voters, 13,99,289 are girl voters and 62 are of the third gender, are eligible to solid their franchise.
The voting is underway at 3,337 polling stations. Ample safety preparations have been made for the polls. The state has 97 all-women-managed police stations. It has 94,815 voters within the 18-19 age group and 6,21,505 within the 22-29 age group. The best variety of voters are within the 40-59 age group at 9,81,089.
The destiny of the 259 candidates shall be sealed on 60 Meeting seats at present.
A triangular contest is on the playing cards as Congress and CPIM, which have been arch rivals for years, stitched a pre-poll alliance to defeat the ruling BJP whereas the BJP which is seeking to retain its energy is contesting in alliance with Indigenous Folks’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT) and the Tipra Motha which is being seen as a kingmaker in case of a hung meeting state of affairs, emerged as an influential regional celebration floated by the royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma in 2021. In the meantime, Trinamool Congress has additionally put up candidates for a number of seats.
The BJP is contesting on 55 seats and its ally, IPFT, on six seats. However each allies have fielded candidates within the Ampinagar constituency within the Gomati district.
The Left will contest 47 and Congress on 13 seats, respectively. Of the entire 47 seats, the CPM will contest 43 seats whereas the Ahead Bloc, Communist Occasion of India ( CPI) and Revolutionary Socialist Occasion ( RSP) will contest one seat every.
Over 28 lakh voters are eligible to solid their votes within the election for the 60-member meeting within the border state. (ANI)
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