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Security up at Agartala for Prime Minister's visit : Extra securities to cover from Agartala Airport to Assam Rifles ground
TIWN March 8, 2018
Security up at Agartala for Prime Minister's visit : Extra securities to cover from Agartala Airport to Assam Rifles ground
PHOTO : Rehearsals for PM Modi's arrival conducted at Agartala Airport. TIWN Pic March 8

AGARTALA, March 8 (TIWN): Tight security under SP West Abhijit Saptarshi have geared up across Agartala as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit in Tripura tomorrow. An Agartala Airport official said that rehearsals for PM Modi's arrival have been taken place. The rehearsal covered security issues to welcoming the PM. From Agartala Airport Modi travel via car for Assam Rifles ground and completing the oath taking ceremony, PM Modi will left Agartala in the afternoon. BJP has claimed to mark the oath taking ceremony as 'historical'. Tomorrow along with PM Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Ananta Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will also be present on that occasion at Assam Rifles ground.

After Tripura victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had termed the BJP's performance in Tripura an "ideological victory" and said the message should be spread across the country to maintain its winning streak.

Modi was addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting, where he was felicitated by the party leaders amid chants of "Jeet Hamari Jaari Hai, Ab Karnataka Ki Baari Hai" (our winning streak continues, now it is Karnataka's turn).

"The party's victory in Tripura is the victory of BJP's ideology because it was the citadel of Left since the last 25 years. We will have to maintain this winning streak by working hard," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar quoted Modi as having said in the meeting.

The BJP and the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) swept the February 18 polls, winning 43 of the 59 seats.

The BJP secured 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly and the IPFT, a tribal-based party, eight. The Communist Party of India-Marxist got 16 seats while the Congress drew a blank.

BJP leader Biplab Kumar Deb will assume office on Friday as the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura.

The newly-elected MLAs of the BJP and IPFT met in Agartala in the presence of central observers and Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Jual Oram, and elected Deb as leader of the party's Legislature Party.

According to informed sources, the Prime Minister said that party's performance in northeastern states holds importance in view of the development works carried out by the NDA government after it came to power.

"The party will focus on the issue of development. The workers need to work hard to maintain this winning streak," Modi said, adding that there was an atmosphere of hope and expectation in the country.

 

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