This story is from July 27, 2019

Tripura panchayat polls to be held today

A total of 833 village panchayat seats, 82 panchayat samity seats and 79 zilla parishad seats will go to the polls in Tripura on Saturday.The fate of 2,438 candidates will be decided during these polls.
Tripura panchayat polls to be held today
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AGARTALA: A total of 833 village panchayat seats, 82 panchayat samity seats and 79 zilla parishad seats will go to the polls in Tripura on Saturday. The fate of 2,438 candidates will be decided during these polls. Voting will be held from 7am to 4pm today.
State election commissioner GK Rao said that all arrangements have been made and security measures stepped up to ensure peaceful elections.

Out of the 6,646 panchayat seats, the ruling BJP has won 5,652 seats unopposed. While BJP is contesting in all the poll-bound 833 village panchayat seats, Congress is fighting in 612, CPM in 396 and IPFT in 37 seats. In case of panchayat samity, BJP is fighting all the poll-bound 82 seats while CPM has fielded 56 candidates, Congress has fielded 60 and IPFT has fielded two and CPI has fielded one candidate. In case of the zilla parishad seats, BJP is contesting from 79 seats, CPM from 67, Congress from 63 and IPFT from two seats.
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