Left Front announces candidates for Lok Sabha seats in Tripura; extends support to Congress
Left Front on Sunday announced its candidate for the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat (ST) and decided to support the Congress in the other seat– Tripura West parliamentary constituency.
Front convener Narayan Kar said that former CPI-M MLA Rajendra Reang would be the Left parties’ nominee in the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat, reserved for the tribal.
Kar said that former CPI-M MLA Ratan Das, who is also the Secretary of the CPI-M West District committee, would be fielded in the Ramnagar assembly seat (in West Tripura), where by-elections would be held on April 19.
The Assembly seat was lying vacant after the death of BJP MLA Surajit Datta on December 28.
The Left leader while talking to the media said that the Left Front as a part of the INDIA bloc decided to fight the poll battle together with the other partners of the grouping including Congress to defeat the BJP in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.
CPI-M state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury said that the Left parties would soon hold meetings with the Congress and other INDIA block partners to chalk out the campaign and other strategies.
Congress on March 8 nominated its state party President Ashish Kumar Saha as candidate for the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat.
The BJP won both seats for the first time in 2019, with Union Minister of State for Social Justice Pratima Bhoumik (Tripura West) and Rebati Tripura (Tripura East) emerging triumphant.
However, both have been dropped this time and ‘Maharani’ Kriti Singh Debbarma and former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb were
