Tripura Elections 2023!

13.7 percent Voter Turnout Till 9AM…

On Thursday, 16 February 2023, as voting began for the Assembly elections in Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Saha urged voters to turn out in large numbers and exercise their franchise.

The Chief Minister said that I am confident that the BJP would secure a second straight and clear term at the hustings in the Northeast state.

Nearly, 13.7 per cent of the eligible voters have casted their franchise till 9 in the morning.

A high voltage election campaign where the ruling BJP faces off with the Left-Cong alliance on the one hand and the Tipra Motha on the other hand will culminate on Thursday when the electorate casts its vote.

All preparations for conducting free, fair and peaceful elections to the 60-member Tripura Assembly have been fully completed, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Gitte Kirankumar Dinakarro said.

The voting will be held under high security between 7 am and 4 pm at 3,337 polling stations. Out of which 1,100 were identified as most sensitive and 28 as critical polling stations, Mr. Dinakarro told news agency PTI.

The Highlighted contestants of the elections are the BJP-IPFT combine, CPI (M)-Congress alliance and the Tipra Motha, a regional party formed by the scion of the northeastern state's former royal family.

The counting of the votes will be done on March 2.