As part of preparations for the assembly elections, slated to be held in 2023, the ruling-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura has reconstituted the 16-member ‘Election Management Committee’, headed by the state BJP President – Rajib Bhattacharjee.

This ‘Election Management Committee’ will finalize the poll strategies, and look-after all election-related developments, ahead of the 2023 Assembly Elections and the Village Committee polls scheduled to be held in November this year.

The core committee headed by Bhattacharjee includes – Chief Minister  Dr. Manik Saha, Rajya Sabha MP – Biplab Kumar Deb, Deputy CM – Jishnu Dev Varma, Union Minister – Pratima Bhoumik, MP – Rebati Tripura, Cabinet Minister – Ratan Lal Nath and general secretaries of the state BJP unit.

“The BJP has been suffering from faction feuds, since it won the assembly polls in 2018 and it has fragmented over the years. New BJP leaders are trying hard to marginalize the voice of old guards,” – informed a senior party functionary.

“Besides the state leaders, BJP’s North East Coordinator Sambit Patra, Union Minister Rituraj Sinha and BJP’s Central Observer for the state Mahesh Sharma have been included in the state’s core committee as the invitee members,” – the leader further added.

Meanwhile, the senior party leader also noted that the Union Minister of Home Affairs & Cooperation – Amit Shah is likely to pay a visit to the poll-bound state in the month of November. He is likely to address a political rally to officially kick-start the party’s poll campaign for the general assembly elections.