Agartala, Aug 8: Amid tight security, voting for the 3-tier Panchayat election started in Tripura on Thursday.
Voting started at 7 am with ballots. Voter’s turnout was less in the morning as it has been raining.
“Security was good and the voting has been going on smoothly. I have come in early morning and completed my voting. I have to go to office at 10 am. So, I came early morning for voting. Everything was fine in the voting centre,” said a voter.
This election has already gone in the favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the party winning 4,550 seats unopposed out of the total 6,370 seats in the gram panchayat bodies, translating to unopposed win to over 71 percent.
Contest are happening in the remaining 1,819 seats where all the major political parties placing their candidates.
The BJP has put forth candidates in 1,818 of these seats as well, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) has fielded 1,222 candidates.
The Congress party has 731 contenders, TIPRA Motha 138, and several independent candidates are also vying for positions. Interestingly, one seat in the Dukli gram panchayat remains vacant.
The scenario is similar in the Panchayat Samity bodies. Here, out of 423 seats, 244 were won uncontested by the BJP. The remaining 189 seats will witness a competitive election with the BJP contesting 188 seats, CPIM 148, Congress 98, and TIPRA Motha 11.
In the Zilla Parishad bodies, 20 out of 116 seats were uncontested by the ruling BJP, leaving 96 seats to be contested. The BJP has candidates in all 96 seats, CPIM in 81, Congress in 76, TIPRA Motha in 2, and there are seven independent candidates as well.
Overall, the upcoming elections will see 8,998 candidates from various political factions competing for the gram panchayat positions, 783 candidates for the panchayat samity seats, and 384 for the Zilla Parishad seats.
Parliamentary forces have been deployed in all the sensitive areas to maintain law and order situation.
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