32 withdrawl nomination , 259 candidates are contesting: Assembly Election 2023

Agartala: Feb 02: The Tripura CEO said that they have rejected 19 nomination papers as they had no proposal papers of 10 people, they didn’t deposit security money and based on other issues. 291 candidates were contesting in Assembly Election 2023 after 32 candidates withdrew their nomination. He further said in 2018 the number of the contestant was 297.Addressing to the media CEO Kiran Gitte said for the forthcoming assembly election, 310 nomination papers were submitted among this 19 nomination papers were rejected. According to the final list 28 candidates from Trinamool Congress, 55 from BJP, 43 from CPIM, 13 from Congress, 6 from IPFT, 42 from Tipra Motha, 1 from CPI,2 from TPP, 7 from other unrecognized party, one each from TSP, RSP, CPI-ML and AIFB and 58 are independent.He further informed that from 13 from CPI-M, 3 from Congress, 3 from Tipra Motha withdrew their candidates. The process of ballot paper distribution will start from February 3; the process of postal ballot vote will be started from next week.