Coalition partners BJP, IPFT to contest Tripura panchayat polls separately
The ruling BJP and its ally IPFT will contest the by-elections for the three-tier panchayat separately, fuelling speculation about fissures within the fledgling coalition, which in March ended the 25-year-long Left rule in the state.
By-elections on 3,207 seats of gram panchayats, 161 panchayat samitis and 18 zilla parishads will take place on September 30.
The seats fell vacant after large-scale resignations by elected public representatives since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) government came to power on March 9.
Chairman of the Panchayat election committee of BJP and minister for Education Ratan Lal Nath said that the party wanted wanted "to check its strength alone."
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