Agartala 13 February 2023: BJP is all set to win Tripura again in 2023, after
registering a massive victory 5 years back by defeating the Left bastion in
2018 in the Tripura Assembly Elections. Voting for the 60-member Tripura
will be held on February 16. The results will be declared on March 2. This year
the focus is on to win the battle of Tripura’s heartland Dhanpur seat where
Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik popularly known as ‘Pratima Di’ is
contesting. Bhoumik is leaving no stone unturned – from door to door
campaigns, bike rallies, road shows – to win the most important seat of
Tripura Assembly Elections.
She has announced that Manik Sarkar's bastion will fall and for the first time
Dhanpur will have local MLA. In 2021, Pratima Bhoumik created history by
becoming the first politician from Tripura to become a Union Minister. She
was appointed as the Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment. Bhoumik, a first-time MP, was elected from the West
Tripura constituency in the last general elections in 2019.
Pratima Bhoumik was born on 28th May 1969 at Bornarayan, Dhanpur,
Sonamura. Her father was a farmer and their main source of livelihood is
farming. She was the first graduate from her village.
