The BJP had won 32 of the 60 seats in the recently-held Assembly polls but its tally dropped to 31 after Union minister Pratima Bhoumik resigned from the Dhanpur Assembly seat that she had won
For the first time in Tripura since 1952, the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), a tribal-based political outfit, scripted history in the recently-concluded Assembly polls by emerging as the principal opposition party with 13 seats, but its political flip-flops and gimmicks are now attracting sharp criticism from different quarters.
Ruling BJP MLA Biswa Bandhu Sen was elected the Speaker of the Tripura assembly on Friday defeating opposition CPI-M-Congress joint candidate Gopal Chandra Roy.Septuagenarian Congress-turned-BJP leader, Sen secured 32 votes, while Roy, one of .
The first session of the 13th Tripura Legislative Assembly began today in Agartala. The session began with the address of Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya.In his address, the Governor lauded the election commission, State administration and all those wh
AGARTALA: For the time in Tripura since 1952, the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), a tribal-based political outfit, scripted history in the recently-concluded Assembly polls by emerging as the principal opposition party with 13 seats, but its political flip-flops and gimmicks are now attracting sharp criticism from different quarters. On Friday’s poll to elect the new Assembly Speaker, all the 13 MLAs led by TMP’s legislative party leader Animesh Debbarma walked out from the House just before the beginning of the voting process, expressing their displeasure over a petty matter related to sitting arrangements in the House. TMP supremo Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman had earlier promised to support the joint candidate fielded by the CPI-M and the Congress, Gopal Chandra Roy. In fact, Deb Barma, who is also the incumbent leader of the opposition, was one of the proposers in Roy’s nomination paper. Hours after Deb Barman’s assurance to the Congress leaders, Home Minister