Tripura Assembly Election 2023: Chief Minister Manik Saha to cast his vote at 8 AM
The voting process started at 7 AM on February 16 and in this election around 310 candidates were nominated among them around 19 nominations were rejected while around 32 nominations were withdrawn and lastly 259 candidates are in the fray.
- Feb 16, 2023,
- Updated Feb 16, 2023, 7:38 AM IST
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha is expected to cast his vote at 8 AM at Sishu Vihar in the state's Agartala city on February 16.
Saha is contesting from Town Bordowali Assembly Constituency and will be visiting temples before casting his votes.
The voting process started at 7 AM on February 16 and in this election around 310 candidates were nominated among them around 19 nominations were rejected while around 32 nominations were withdrawn and lastly 259 candidates are in the fray.
Among these 259 candidates 28 are from All Indian Trinamool Congress, 55 from BJP, 13 from Congress, 6 from IPFT, Tipra Motha fielded 42 candidates, 43 from CPI (M), 1 each from CPI, CPI (M)L, AIFB, TSP, RSP, 7 from other unrecognized party and 58 others from Independent party.
In this election, as many as 28 lakh 13 thousand voters would exercise their franchise in around 3, 337 polling stations across the state.
This time around 80,000 new voters were enrolled in the final electoral rolls of Tripura who will cast their vote today.
In this election 11, 000 women enrolled their names this time.
Apart from these 77 numbers of transgender will cast their vote which was earlier around 46.
Also read: Tripura Assembly Elections 2023 Live Updates: Polling for 60 seats begins at 7 am