Agartala, July 20: The BJP is likely to win 68.27 per cent of gram panchayat seats unopposed in Tripura where three-tier panchayats elections are scheduled on August 8.
Speaking to reporters, an official of the State Election Commission (SEC) said
that in 4,349 (68.27 per cent) of the total 6,370 gram panchayat seats, only BJP candidates have filed nomination while in 190 of the 423 seats in panchayat samitis and two of the 116 seats in zilla parishads, only ruling party nominees have submitted their candidatures.
“There are 6,370 seats in 606 gram panchayats, 423 seats in 35 panchayat samitis, and 116 seats in eight zilla parishads, with 33 per cent reservation for women.The last date for withdrawing nominations is July 22, when the exact number of candidates winning unopposed would be announced,” the official said.
As many as 8,998 candidates from different political parties have filed nominations for the gram panchayats, 783 for panchayat samiti, and 384 for the zilla parishads.
On July 18, a division bench of the High Court of Tripura comprising Justice Arindam Lodh and Justice Sabyasachi Datta Purkayastha asked the SEC to hold the panchayat elections freely, fairly, and transparently.
On the other hand, the Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front have alleged that the BJP workers and goons backed by them did not allow their candidates to submit their nomination papers in hundreds of seats.
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