AGARTALA, Dec 21 (TIWN): The District Magistrate & Collector West Tripura Millind Ramteke and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S K Rakesh administered the oath for the newly elected member of the AMC at Rabindra Bhawan on Monday.

It is to be mentioned here that the formation of the new AMC, MCs, and NPs is already completed and the oath taking ceremony was administered by DM on Monday. Dr. Prafullajit Sinha once again took oath as the Mayor of 49 seated Agartala Municipal corporations (AMC).  

Followed by Mayor, Samar Chakrabarty took oath as the Deputy Mayor of 49 seated Agartala Municipal corporations (AMC) for next five consecutive years.

After securing the landslide victory in the just concluded polls to altogether 20 civic bodies including AMC, the left has already chosen their favourable candidates and has conducted the oath taking ceremony at RS Bhawan.

Here it may be noted that Tripura's ruling Left Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) swept the civic polls across the state, winning all the 20 local government bodies, including Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC).

The Left parties retained the 49-member AMC for the fourth consecutive term while the Left Front retained the 12 municipal councils and all six nagar panchayats.

Elections were held to the 144-years-old Agartala Municipal Corporation, 13 municipal councils and five nagar panchayats in Tripura on Wednesday. Around 89 percent of the 537,968 electorate voted in the polls in Left-ruled Tripura.

In all, 886 candidates, including 429 women, from all parties contested the politically important civic polls.

CPI-M nominee and Mayor of the outgoing AMC, Prafullajit Sinha, Deputy Mayor Samar Chakraborty as well as candidates Fulan Bhattacharjee, Gargi Roy Chowdhury and Biswanath Saha (Forward Bloc) are the notable winners in the AMC while Congress' mayor candidate Amar Ranjan Gupta and prominent leaders Basana Debnath and Panna Deb are among those who lost in the polls.