The election officials said on Friday that the BJP's two candidates have won Tripura's Dhanpur and Boxanagar Assembly constituencies, defeating their CPI (M) rivals with comfortable margins.

The Modi-led government has constituted a committee headed by former President of India Ram Nath Kovind in order to explore the possibility of ‘One Nation, One Election’, sources said on Friday. This report of the committee comes a day after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the government has convened a special session of Parliament for five days between September 18 and 22.