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Electioneering in Tripura is picking up for the upcoming elections to the 60-seated state assembly. The election will be held on the 16th of next month. The process for nomination submission for candidature began with the gazette notification being issued today.
Accordingly, the process for filing nomination papers has also begun. On the first day of nomination submission, today no candidate from any major parties filed a nomination, barring two candidates from a state party. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Subhasis Banerjee said that these two nominations were submitted for two seats in the West Tripura district.
The state is going for assembly polls on the 16th of February. According to the election notification, the last date for tendering nominations for candidature is the 30th of January.
The scrutiny of the nominations will be held on the 31st of January and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is the 2nd of February. Also, the counting of votes will take place on the 2nd of March. AIR Correspondent reports that as per the final electoral roll as of the 1st of January 2023, the total number of eligible voters is 28,13, 478. Of them, 14,14,576 are male voters and 13,98,825 are female. Also, there are 77 voters of the Third Gender.
Chief Electoral Officer Gitte Kiran Kumar said, the election commission has taken elaborate arrangements to conduct the assembly poll in a free, fair and peaceful manner. Election machinery will provide a level playing field to all political parties. Central Paramilitary Forces, most of which have reached the State, will be deployed in every polling station and also in all important international check posts, airports, circles and streets.
Apart from general observers and financial observers, this time ECI has also appointed three special observers to ensure security deployment and intensify enforcement measures. CEO Kiran Kumar said, in this poll, candidates can file their nominations online and track applications online through the SUVIDHA application.