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Bypolls for 4 Assembly Seats Concludes in Tripura; 76.62% Turnout Till 5 pm

An off-duty police official was stabbed with a sharp object while he was visiting a polling booth in Agartala.

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The bypolls for four Assembly seats in Tripura concluded on Thursday, 23 June with an aggregate voter turnout of 76.62 percent recorded till 5 pm in the state. Votes will be counted on 26 June.

The seats that were being contested include Agartala, Town Bardowali, Jubarajnagar, and Surma.

Agartala recorded a voter turnout of 76.72 percent, Town Bordowali – 69.54 percent, Surma – 80 percent, and Jubarajnagar – 80.41 percent.

The bypolls in Agartala and Town Bardowali were necessitated since Sudip Roy Barman and Asish Saha resigned as MLAs of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress earlier this year.

Surma, on the other hand, went to the polls after the BJP's Ashish Das was disqualified by Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty. The Jubarajnagar seat fell vacant due to the death of Ramendra Chandra Debnath, the sitting MLA of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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