Ruling BJP MLA and veteran tribal leader Burba Mohan Tripura on Friday resigned from the Assembly and was likely to join TIPRA (Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance), a tribal-based party.Official sources said that the 67-year-old .
Burba Mohan Tripura, legislator from Karbook, leaves party which has of late stepped up efforts to tone up state unit to tide over growing challenges being posed by its political rivals
The last-minute preparations were underway on Wednesday for the politically crucial by-elections in four assembly constituencies in Tripura, scheduled to be held on Thursday.Central and state security forces were deployed ahead of the vital .
The over a month-long hectic poll campaign for the June 23 by-elections to four assembly seats in Tripura came to an end on Tuesday even as a tense situation prevailed in some areas of these poll-bound constituencies
As many as 24 candidates including Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha filed their nomination papers for the June 23 bypolls to four Assembly seats in Tripura