Voting On For Tripura Civic Bodies; Trinamool, Left Allege Unfair Play
NDTV
Tripura local body election: The CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress also alleged not all voters were allowed to enter polling booths
The Tripura civic elections began at 7 am today amid claims by the opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), and the Trinamool Congress that workers of the ruling BJP are going around on motorcycles and intimidating their candidates.
The CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress also alleged not all voters were allowed to enter polling booths.
Gangs with their faces masked and wearing helmets have gone door to door warning voters to stay home, the opposition parties alleged.
"Information has been pouring from... several wards of Agartala Municipal Council that large number of miscreants are intruding into those areas at the behest of ruling BJP and indulging into terrorising the opposition supporters with dire consequences, with the threat not to move to the polling stations on November 25," the CPI(M) said in a statement.
