Tripura: BJP forms 13-member committee for By-election

Guwahati: In a move to strengthen the election preparations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura has formed a 13-member core committee to manage the upcoming by-election in the 7-Ramnagar Assembly Constituency.

The committee will be headed by Transport Minister Sushanta Chowdhury.

On Friday BJP had named Agartala Mayor Dipak Majumder as its candidate for the upcoming Ramnagar assembly by-elections.

The seat remained vacant after seasoned BJP MLA Surajit Dutta passed away in December last year.

The voting for the by-elections is scheduled to take place on April 19.

An order, signed by BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharya, said that the 13-member election management committee will be led by the minister Sushanta Chowdhury as the Convener.

The other members will act as Co-convener of the committee.

The other 12 members are Abhijit Moulick, Abhijit Deb, Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya, Samar Roy, Santosh Saha, Amal Choudhury, Devid Debbarma, Bhaswati Debbarma, Prithiraj Debbarma, Subha Rani Debbarma, Jasim Uddin, and Abhishek Datta.