Central forces to be deployed in bye polls to two Tripura Assembly seats

 AGARTALA: The Election Commission, responding to the opposition parties' demands, on Thursday announced that central paramilitary forces will be deployed for the bye elections to two Assembly seats in Tripura on September 5. Tripura Chief Electoral Officer Puneet Agarwal said that to conduct transparent and tranquil by-elections, a series of measures would be taken to tackle potential infringements and uphold the overall security of the process. Various collaborative efforts alongside law enforcement bodies, including the central forces, especially the Border Security Force (BSF), are being initiated to make the by-elections free, fair, and incident-free, he said. Agarwal said that he had already held meetings with Chief Secretary Jitendra Kumar Sinha, Director General of Police Amitabh Ranjan, and senior other officials and leaders of all political parties.

A total of 93,234 voters are eligible to cast their votes in Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats on September 5. The statutory notification for the by-elections was issued on Thursday. As per the schedule, the last date for filing nominations is August 17, and the scrutiny of candidatures will take place the next day. The last date for withdrawing nominations is August 21. Votes will be counted on September 8.

The bye-election in the Dhanpur assembly seat was necessitated after Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik resigned from the Assembly days after her election from the seat as a BJP nominee in the February 16 Assembly elections, the result of which was declared on March 2. The Muslim-dominated Boxanagar assembly seat fell vacant after the death of sitting CPI-M MLA Samsul Haque, who died here on July 19 after a cardiac attack. (IANS)

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