{"id":439221,"date":"2023-01-28T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=439221"},"modified":"2023-03-04T03:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:50:33","slug":"tripura-assembly-elections-congress-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/tripura-assembly-elections-congress-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripura Assembly Elections: BJP announces candidates for 48 seats, Congress pitches 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of Tripura assembly elections, the incumbent BJP announced their candidates for 48 seats on Saturday. Opposing Congress have also fielded candidates for 17 seats. The assembly elections for the 60-member Tripura assembly is due on February 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the reports, the Bharatiya Janata Party, out of the 48 fielded nominees, have pitched 11 women. The candidates for the rest of 12 seats, after pitching for 48, have not been announced yet by the saffron party. The remaining 12 seats which the BJP are yet to field for include two prime constituencies &#8211; Agartala and Suryamaninagar and the other 10 are the tribal reserved seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha will contest from Bordowali constituency whereas Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik will contest from her native Dhanpur Seat. Bhowmik lost the last elections against the former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BJP Tripura\u2019s state chief Rajib Bhattacharjee will contest from Banamalipur seat whereas the sitting MLA Moboshar Ali, who recently jumped ships and joined the BJP from CPI (M), will contest from Kailashahar constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six MLAs that were dropped by the BJP include Arun Chandra Bhowmik (Belonia), Biplab Ghosh (Matabari), Subhash Das (Nalchar), Mimi Majumder (Badharghat), Birendra Kishore Debbarma (Golaghati), and Parimal Debbarma from Ambasa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that all the nine ministers including the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma got the party tickets to contest from their respective constituencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP has only released their first list and the second list for the remaining 12 seats will be released soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Check out the entire list below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first list of 48 BJP candidates for the General election to the legislative assembly of Tripura finalised by the BJP Central Election Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XmZ7g5y1pp\">pic.twitter.com\/XmZ7g5y1pp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BJP (@BJP4India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4India\/status\/1619222784332431360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congress&#8217; Candidates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress party that will be fighting in alliance with Communist Party of India (Marxist) against the incumbent BJP have fielded their 17 candidates. Congress\u2019 senior leader Ashish Kumar Saha will contest from Bardowali constituency against Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman who was a former BJP minister will be fighting from Agartala constituency. Congress has fielded Raj Kumar Sarkar for Badharghat Constituency who is pitched against her sister Mina Sarakar by BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress\u2019 alliance CPI(M) had also released the list of 43 seats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Check the whole list of candidates below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congress announces a list of 17 candidates for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TripuraElections2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TripuraElections2023<\/a>. Sudip Roy Barman to contest from Agartala. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4MuQw0RF5c\">pic.twitter.com\/4MuQw0RF5c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1619225367881084929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha will contest from Bordowali constituency whereas Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik will contest from her native Dhanpur Seat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":439225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tripura Assembly Elections: BJP announces candidates for 48 seats, Congress pitches 17\n\n\n\n#TripuraAssemblyElections #Congress #BJP #CPIM #News #Trending #TripuraPolls #Viral #TrendingNews","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[86,111,20286,152525],"yst_prominent_words":[21895,20827,4211,20926,3811,3813,10533,3688,24203],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/01\/28161811\/Screenshot_20230128_161424-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439221"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=439221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=439221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->