Tripura West goes to poll on April 19 in the first phase, followed by Tripura East on April 26

Speaking to indianexpress.com, a senior party leader said Shah would fly to Kumarghat in North Tripura district on Monday morning, where he is scheduled to address a major poll rally.

Mandwai was one of the worst hit by the ethnic conflicts of 1980 when tribal and non-tribal communities had clashed against each other.

Dipak Majumder has been pitted against INDIA Bloc candidate Ratan Das in the Ramnagar bye-election. The bypoll was necessitated following the death of sitting MLA Surajit Dutta in December last year

Bhowmik says he wanted to know why BJP dropped him from the list of candidates in last year’s Tripura Assembly elections despite winning from Belonia in the 2018 Assembly elections.

The two Parliamentary seats of Tripura – West Tripura and East Tripura – are scheduled to undergo polling in two phases; the first one on April 19 in the first phase and the second, on April 26 in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections

In his address at a campaign rally in favour of Congress president and INDIA Bloc candidate for West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency Ashish Kumar Saha and Assembly by-poll candidate Ratan Das at Agartala this evening, Sarkar piled heat on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its alleged misrule.

Tripura West will go to polls in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 while Tripura East in the second phase on April 26.

All the three, including Pinaki Das Chowdhury, were rushed to the Gobind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital in Agartala.

Tripura Fisheries and Animal Resource Development minister Sudhangshu Das said 95 percent of Tripura’s population is estimated to be fish consumers, requiring 1.15 lakh metric tonne of fish annually.