AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Tripura MP Jitendra Chaudhury on Tuesday could not cast vote as he was engaged in Khowai to prevent BJP’s poll rigging.

In a social media update, Jitendra Chaudhury said, “I could not cast votes but it saved lakhs of votes of the public”.

Over 79 percent of the total 12.5 lakh voters on Tuesday cast their ballots in the deferred polling for the Tripura East parliamentary constituency, earlier Tripura touched a record of 90% in voting rate. Lakhs of voters could not cast votes and video footage of election rigging have been sent to Special Observer Vinod Zutshi.

However, in compare to West Tripura, this East Tripura Election was in better.