State government appoints administrators to civic bodies
Dec 17: The State government has appointed administrators to run twenty civic bodies in the state despite objections by different political parties.The tenure of most of these civic bodies comprising of six nagar panchayats, 13 municipal councils and one municipal corporation, is scheduled to end within the next three days.The state urban development department issued appointment letters to several magistrates, who were likely to take responsibility as administrators to these civic bodies from Thursday.While the district magistrate of West Tripura district will take responsibility for the Agartala Municipal Corporation, sub-divisional magistrates will act as administrators of other civic bodies in the state.The state election authority has postponed the elections to the civic bodies till February 27 next year in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.CPIM leader, Pabitra Kar said, “The government’s decision to appoint admi
BJP plans to expand domination in NE s tribal areas as well: Analysts
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Sujit Chakraborty ( IANS) |
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Mon, Dec 14 2020 22:18 IST |
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Guwahati/Agartala, Dec 14 : The BJP has dumped its old ally in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls in Assam and ignored its partner s willingness to share seats in the upcoming polls in Tripura tribals autonomous body aiming to strengthen its domination on its own in the tribal areas of northeastern region, political observers say.
In the BTC polls, held last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which heads Assam s ruling coalition, entered resoundingly into the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) comprising four districts Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri - by wining nine seats in the 40-member council as against one in 2015.