Trinamool Congress announces first list of 22 candidates for Tripura polls

 AGARTALA: The Trinamool Congress on Sunday issued their first list of 22 candidates for the February 16 elections to the 60-seat Tripura Assembly.

Trinamool's Tripura State president Pijush Kanti Biswas said that his party would undertake all-out efforts ahead of the next month's elections to defeat the ruling BJP.

Of the 22 candidates, there are two women while the party has fielded six candidates in the Scheduled Tribe reserve seats and two candidates in the Scheduled Caste reserve seats.

Biswas, accompanied by party Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev and State party in-charge Rajib Banerjee, said that the party would announce the second list later on.

He said that West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee would visit the State on February 6 and 7 to address election rallies and meetings.

TMC's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and a host of Bengal leaders and film actors would address election rallies across the State.

Biswas, a lawyer-turned-politician, said that if the Trinamool came to power after the elections, it would provide adequate relief and return their money to the 14 lakh people who had deposited money in various chit funds (Ponzi schemes). He said that the BJP, before coming to power in 2018, assured that they would help the 14 lakh depositors in the chit funds scam but they did nothing, with the BJP Government even using the assets and buildings of the chit fund companies. (IANS)

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