Agartala: Jan 25: CPIM has announced the list of candidates for 43 constituencies. 13 seats left for Congress. Out of the remaining four seats, the Left Front has reserved one for the CPI, one for the RSP, one for the Forward Bloc and one for an independent candidate (Tripura Human Rights Organization nominee and senior lawyer Purushottam Roy Barman from the seven Ramnagar seats). Left Front Chairman Narayan Kar made this announcement at a press conference organized at the CPIM state office at 7:30 pm on Wednesday. He said this time there are 24 new faces in the candidate list.
This includes two 10,323 dismissed teachers. They are Bamutia Constituency candidate Nayan Sarkar, Shantirbazar Constituency candidate Satyajit Riang. Also among the new faces is a leftist student organization SFI. He is the candidate of Kamala Sagar Constituency Hiranmoy Narayan Debnath. A candidate of Tribal Youth Organization i.e. TYF, he was nominated from Ampinagar Assembly constituency. Another TYF leader is Devendra Tripura. He has been nominated by CPI(M) from Julaibari constituency. On the other hand, ADC’s former education leader Rajendra Riang will contest from Kanchanpur. Meanwhile, 2 Mohanpur, 6 Agartala, 8 Baradowali, 9 Banmalipur, 14 Badharghat, 18 Suryamani Nagar, 19 Charilam, 28 Teliamura, 45 Kamalpur, 48 Karamchara, 53 Kailasahar, 56 Dharmanagar and 59 Pecharthal assembly constituencies are for the Congress and the CPIM. Other Left Front organizations did not field candidates. And this year opposition leader Manik Sarkar has stepped down from the fray. Kaushik Chand will contest from Dhanpur instead, Bhanulal Saha will not contest from Vishalgarh. Partha Pratim Majumder will fight from Bishalgarh.
Shamsul Haque has become a candidate instead of former Buxnagar MLA Saheed Chowdhury, Hiranmoy Narayan Debnath will contest from Kamala Sagar assembly constituency instead of former MLA Narayan Chandra Chowdhury. Ashok Mitra will fight instead of Badal Chowdhury from Rishyamukh Assembly Constituency, Devendra Tripura will fight instead of former MLA Joshvir Tripura from July House, Krishnendu Chowdhury will fight from Chandipur Assembly Constituency instead of former MLA Tapan Chakraborty, former MLA Mobasar Ali will fight from Kailashar Assembly Constituency. The seat has been left for the Congress. There are two women in the candidate list. Among the former MLAs who have dropped out of the candidate list this time, all will be in charge of the organizational leadership of the state from the front row. In particular, opposition leader Manik Sarkar has sought exemption from being a candidate to do organizational work, said Narayan Kar. State Secretary Jitendra Chowdhury will contest from 40 Sabroom Assembly Constituency. The door is still open for him to head Tipra. If they come under one umbrella, the seat will provide an opportunity for them to field candidates from other Left Front seats and defeat the BJP. Jitendra Chowdhury also said that since the code of contact is going on in the state, even if the central government wants to, it will not be able to give a written promise of Greater Tipraland to Tipra Matha. He also said that those who have been placed in the new list of candidates have been given opportunities after verifying their political and administrative experience. The Left Front will release the manifesto in the next few days. He said that submission of nomination papers will be started from January 27. He also said that twelve seats were reserved for the Congress. But the observer of the Congress. Ajay Kumar has sought the Dharmanagar seat for the Congress. So it has been decided that CPIM will not contest Dharmanagar seat.
