Tripura

Tripura Poll: Congress to release candidate lists on Jan 25; seat sharing strategy underway with CPI(M)


The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee will release the party's candidate lists on January 25 next for the assembly election scheduled to be held on February 16, said party president Birjit Sinha on Monday.

He said that the names of the candidate has been send to the party's high command at Delhi.

He however informed that the talks on seat sharing strategy of the Congress party is underway with the CPI(M) party and it would be finalised soon. The Congress will not filed candidate on the seats, where the opposition CPI(M) party has high chance to win and on that way the seat sharing strategy is being discussed with the CPI(M) party.

He said that Congress and CPI-M have come together to contest the assembly elections in Tripura jointly to defeat the BJP and to “free the people of the state from the misrule of the saffron party”.

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