Left Front to boycott Friday’s counting of votes in ‘rigged’ bypolls in Tripura

By Express News Service

GUWAHATI: In BJP-ruled Tripura, the CPI(M)-led Left Front will boycott Friday’s counting of votes of the “rigged” by-elections to 2 Assembly seats.

Boxanagar and Dhanpur constituencies, which went to by-elections on September 5, had recorded a mixed voter turnout of 86.56%.

The Left Front alleged the by-polls had been “completely rigged and made a farce”. It mentioned though it had drawn the eye of the Election Commission again and again proper from the start of polling, no optimistic steps had been taken to forestall rigging.

“In this backdrop, the Tripura Left Front demanded to countermand the rigged election to these two constituencies and go for announcement of fresh election. But surprisingly, the Election Commission has not budged,” the Left Front mentioned.

“Under such circumstances…we have decided to boycott the counting of votes on 8th August, 2023,” the assertion additional mentioned.

CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Choudhury mentioned the get together wouldn’t depute any brokers on the counting centres. He alleged the get together’s polling brokers couldn’t attend duties in practically half of the 110 polling stations on the day of elections resulting from assaults and threats by BJP staff.

The BJP rubbished the fees. The get together claimed the elections had been held in a free and truthful method and that there was a festive temper amongst voters.

The Congress and the Tipra Motha Party (TMP) didn’t contest the polls to keep away from the division of anti-BJP votes. The TMP had earlier declared that it could neither help the BJP nor the CPI(M) however the Congress had campaigned for the 2 CPI(M) candidates.

The CPI(M) candidates had been Mizan Hossain (Boxanagar) and Kaushik Chanda (Dhanpur). The BJP had fielded Taffajal Hossain (Boxanagar) and Bindu Debnath (Dhanpur).

The by-elections to Dhanpur seat had been necessitated by Union minister Pratima Bhoumik’s resignation from the Assembly. In Boxanagar, the dying of sitting MLA Samsul Haque was the explanation behind the by-polls.

GUWAHATI: In BJP-ruled Tripura, the CPI(M)-led Left Front will boycott Friday’s counting of votes of the “rigged” by-elections to 2 Assembly seats.

Boxanagar and Dhanpur constituencies, which went to by-elections on September 5, had recorded a mixed voter turnout of 86.56%.

The Left Front alleged the by-polls had been “completely rigged and made a farce”. It mentioned though it had drawn the eye of the Election Commission again and again proper from the start of polling, no optimistic steps had been taken to forestall rigging.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“In this backdrop, the Tripura Left Front demanded to countermand the rigged election to these two constituencies and go for announcement of fresh election. But surprisingly, the Election Commission has not budged,” the Left Front mentioned.

“Under such circumstances…we have decided to boycott the counting of votes on 8th August, 2023,” the assertion additional mentioned.

CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Choudhury mentioned the get together wouldn’t depute any brokers on the counting centres. He alleged the get together’s polling brokers couldn’t attend duties in practically half of the 110 polling stations on the day of elections resulting from assaults and threats by BJP staff.

The BJP rubbished the fees. The get together claimed the elections had been held in a free and truthful method and that there was a festive temper amongst voters.

The Congress and the Tipra Motha Party (TMP) didn’t contest the polls to keep away from the division of anti-BJP votes. The TMP had earlier declared that it could neither help the BJP nor the CPI(M) however the Congress had campaigned for the 2 CPI(M) candidates.

The CPI(M) candidates had been Mizan Hossain (Boxanagar) and Kaushik Chanda (Dhanpur). The BJP had fielded Taffajal Hossain (Boxanagar) and Bindu Debnath (Dhanpur).

The by-elections to Dhanpur seat had been necessitated by Union minister Pratima Bhoumik’s resignation from the Assembly. In Boxanagar, the dying of sitting MLA Samsul Haque was the explanation behind the by-polls.