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JUMLA Party celebrate Panchayat Election's muscle-flexed-result after grabbing of 96% uncontested seats by rigging
TIWN Oct 10, 2018
JUMLA Party celebrate Panchayat Election's muscle-flexed-result after grabbing of 96% uncontested seats by rigging
PHOTO : BJP celebrates Panchayat Election victory. TIWN Pic Oct 10

AGARTALA, Oct 10 (TIWN): With winning 96% seats with open poll rigging, after the opposition candidates were forced to resign from posts, BJP in Tripura has started massive celebration of Panchayat poll victory.

However by not giving 7th Pay Commission to the employees Prime Minister Modi, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah have proven themselves as "mass cheaters" but Biplab Deb has continued the praising of Modi, claiming Modi is fighting against corruption.

Even though to the State Election Commission, it was urged by opposition parties to reschedule the nomination submission, but the request couldn't be proceeded due to pressure given by the ruling govt. Whereas total numbers of vacant seats were 3207 but only for 132 seats voting is going on. Rest seats have won by BJP without any contest. In the same way in Panchayat Samiti out of 161 seats only for 7 seats elections are going on. For Jila Parishad there will be no election as BJP grabbed all 18 the seats forcefully. 

After winning 96% seats forcefully, the ruling BJP swept the bypolls for the vacant seats in different Panchayati Raj Institutions, bagging 113 Gram Panchayat seatsThe Bharatiya Janata Party's ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) secured nine seats in Gram Panchayats, whereas re-polling was also conducted in two seats and violence hit the result day.

The opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Congress won four seats each. The BJP also won five Panchayat Samiti seats while the CPI-M managed only two seats.

The by-elections to 3,386 seats -- 3,207 Gram Panchayat seats, 161 Panchayat Samiti seats and 18 Zilla Parishad seats -- were scheduled for September 30, but polling was held in only 130 Gram Panchayat and seven Panchayat Samiti seats in 11 blocks as over 96 per cent of the seats were won by the BJP candidates unopposed.

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