Tripura local bodies by-polls announced
Saturday - September 1, 2018 6:42 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Agartala Sep 1 (IANS) The Tripura State Election Commission on Saturday announced by-elections to the 3 386 vacant seats of three-tier gram panchayats on September 30.
"The by-elections to the 3 386 vacant seats of gram panchayats panchayat samities and zilla parishads would be held on September 30. Counting of votes would be done on October 3 " Tripura State Election Commissioner G. Kameswara Rao told the media.
"The by-elections were necessitated mostly due to the resignations and death of the elected representatives. The notification of the by-polls would be issued on September 4 " he said.
Of the 3 386 vacant seats in the three-tier local rural bodies where by-elections would be held 3 207 seats in gram panchayats followed by 161 seats in panchayat samities and 18 seats in zilla parishads.
Reacting to the announcements of the by-elections to the local rural bodies opposition Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) and Congress criticised the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for "forcible resignations of the elected representatives belonging to opposition parties."
"Around 96 per cent of the total elected representatives of CPI-M and other non-BJP parties were forced to resign following BJP leaders and workers threat after the saffron party-led coalition government assumed office in March " CPI-M central committee member Bijan Dhar told the media.
BJP leaders denied the allegations saying that most of the elected representatives either resigned on their own or CPI-M itself asked their them to resign.
"In most cases the CPI-M asked their elected representatives in the three-tier gram panchayats to resign to create a deadlock in the development works in rural areas to put the BJP government in an awkward position " BJP spokesman Mrinal Kanti Deb told IANS.
The last panchayat elections were held in June 2014 and polling is due in June 2019.
--IANS sc/prs
"The by-elections to the 3 386 vacant seats of gram panchayats panchayat samities and zilla parishads would be held on September 30. Counting of votes would be done on October 3 " Tripura State Election Commissioner G. Kameswara Rao told the media.
"The by-elections were necessitated mostly due to the resignations and death of the elected representatives. The notification of the by-polls would be issued on September 4 " he said.
Of the 3 386 vacant seats in the three-tier local rural bodies where by-elections would be held 3 207 seats in gram panchayats followed by 161 seats in panchayat samities and 18 seats in zilla parishads.
Reacting to the announcements of the by-elections to the local rural bodies opposition Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) and Congress criticised the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for "forcible resignations of the elected representatives belonging to opposition parties."
"Around 96 per cent of the total elected representatives of CPI-M and other non-BJP parties were forced to resign following BJP leaders and workers threat after the saffron party-led coalition government assumed office in March " CPI-M central committee member Bijan Dhar told the media.
BJP leaders denied the allegations saying that most of the elected representatives either resigned on their own or CPI-M itself asked their them to resign.
"In most cases the CPI-M asked their elected representatives in the three-tier gram panchayats to resign to create a deadlock in the development works in rural areas to put the BJP government in an awkward position " BJP spokesman Mrinal Kanti Deb told IANS.
The last panchayat elections were held in June 2014 and polling is due in June 2019.
--IANS sc/prs
