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Left set to sweep TTAADC election despite Manik’s Rose Valley tag
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Left set to sweep TTAADC election despite Manik’s Rose Valley tag
PHOTO : TTAADC Poll campaigning by CPM in ADC areas. TIWN File Photo

AGARTALA, April 9 (TIWN): The ruling CPI(M) is all set to regain power in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election this year.As the day approaches for May 3, when a total of 7, 58,554 electors, including 3, 75,117 women will cast their votes to elect the 28 members who will run the District Council for the next five years till 2020 the party seems more and more confident. Unfazed by the developments in the media and a section of the political circle of the state, the ruling CPI(M) has gone all out to ensure victory of their candidates in the election.Until yesterday, when the party used State Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in every election as their star campaigner, the party has not utilised him so far in the campaign. The reason may be the lowering of image of the chief minister owing to the outbreak of the Rose Valley fiasco in the media and the political circle.Irrespective of whether Mr. Manik Sarkar campaigns for the party in the election or not, the political think tanks are of the firm belief that the left party will very easily sweep the election this time.The point holds good with the fact that the opposition stands divided as no pre-poll alliance took place among the oppositions this year and every party are going on their own in the election.

Rallies and public gatherings are organised by the party to garner support for the candidates. Party’s Loksabha MP Jitendra Choudhury is also campaigning for the candidates in various part of the state.

Though both Congress, BJP, INPT have announced their party candidates for all the 28 seats in the TTAADC election, they don’t have much chances in the election, if the poll pundits are to be believed. Another political party, The Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura has not announced candidates for all the 28 seats so far but the party is seen as a better competitor this time in the tribal areas and is expected to win some seats.

The Election Commission will appoint 16 observers for 28 district council constituencies to oversee the election. This is for the first time in TTAADC polls that EVMs (electronic voting machines) will be used for casting of votes.

 

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