AGARTALA, Feb 26 (TIWN): Countdown to the much awaited election results to the recently concluded Village committee election is scheduled to be held on Saturday.

The counting for the election results to be carried out in 51 polling centres.

It is to be mentioned here that the Tripura VC election has recorded 85 percent turnout. However, the fate of the village committees will be decided on Saturday after the completion of the counting process.

However the election completed of February 24 without any report of untoward incident.

Polling was supposed to be held for 587 village committees in TTAADC areas but as the ruling Left parties have already won in 59 VCs; so elections was held for 3,695 seats of 528 VCs.

Reports indicate the elections as one-sided battle for the CPM as the opposition parties could not field candidates in maximum constituencies in the VCs.

Of the total seats, 4,018 are reserved for tribals, 180 for people from Scheduled Castes and 2,005 for women."Instead of Electronic Voting Machines, ballot boxes are used for the polls. 

It is to be mentioned here that among the total seats the Left Front won 902 seats of 59 village committees without any contest.

Now, the elections were held in 3,695 seats. For the elections, a total of 1262 polling stations were set up.

A total of 6, 45,840 voters had exercised their franchise in the elections. Of the total, 3, 26,931 are male whereas the rest 3, 18,909 are female voters.

Multi-layered security blanket is thrown over tribal dominated and interior areas of Tripura for the counting on Saturday in 528 of the 587 village committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).

The state government has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to maintain maximum vigil along the India-Bangladesh border to foil any intrusion attempt from across the border.

Huge security blanket has been thrown over tribal dominated and interior areas of Tripura for the elections. BSF is keeping strict vigilance over the border areas to curb any sort of untoward incident ahead of election results.