Agartala: The Election Commission has rescheduled the ongoing revision of electoral rolls in the Left-ruled Tripura following a complaint by the Congress about alleged irregularities, an official said here Saturday, sparking a protest from the CPM.
Tripura’s Chief Electoral Officer Ashutosh Jindal said: “The Election Commission has extended the schedule of receiving claims and objection from November 2 to November 14 in connection with the on-going special summary revision of the electoral rolls.”
The move comes following a Congress delegation led by party general secretary and in-charge of northeastern states Luizinho Faleiro meeting the poll panel officials in New Delhi on Thursday and complaining about alleged wrongdoing in the revision of the voters’ list
Assembly elections in three northeastern states — Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura — which have 60 seats each is scheduled to be held in February next year.
Criticising the change of the schedule of the revision of the electoral list, ruling Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) alleged that the opposition Congress is conspiring to dislodge the Left-Front government in Tripura, as it did in 1988.
“The Congress becomes frightened to face the assembly election as it would suffer a humiliating defeat in the ensuing assembly polls in Tripura. That’s why the party wants to come to power through back door like 1988,” CPM state secretary Bijon Dhar said.
He said that the Congress-government in New Delhi led by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had promulgated ‘disturb areas act’ in Tripura after a series of “pre-planned terrorist violence” in its bid to install his party into power in the state.
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