People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 03
January 19, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 03 January 19, 2003 |
TRIPURA
Left
Front
Announces
Candidates
For
Assembly
Polls
CONVENOR
of
the
Left
Front
in
Tripura
and
CPI(M)
state
secretary
Baidyanath
Majumder
released
on
January
13
a
list
of
the
front’s
candidates
for
the
ensuing
assembly
elections
in
the
state.
The
list
was
released
at
a
crowded
press
conference
held
in
the
CPI(M)
state
committee
office
at
Agartala
on
the
day.
The
front
has
put
up
16
new
faces
for
the
February
26
elections
to
the
60-member
assembly.
Announcing
the
list
of
candidates,
Majumder
told
newsmen
that
of
the
60
seats,
the
CPI(M)
would
field
55
candidates,
the
CPI
and
the
RSP
would
put
up
two
candidates
each,
and
the
Forward
Bloc
one.
Majumder,
who
fought
the
assembly
election
ten
times
and
has
been
a
legislator
for
the
past
25
years,
will
not
contest
the
coming
polls.
CPI
leader
and
jail
minister
Balaram
Reang
too
will
not
contest.
Chief
minister
and
CPI(M)
Polit
Bureau
member
Manik
Sarkar
will
contest
from
his
present
seat,
Dhanpur,
while
finance
and
power
minister
Badal
Chowdhury
will
contest
from
his
sitting
Hrishyamukh
seat.
Among
other
prominent
CPI(M)
leaders,
Samir
Chakraborty
will
contest
for
the
Ramnagar
seat,
education
minister
Anil
Sarkar
for
the
Pratapgarh
(SC)
seat
and
Subrata
Chakraborty
for
the
Badharghat
seat.
(INN)
