Prime minister Narendra Modi will address Tripura today for his first election rallies at 12pm.

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Posted By: students February 8, 2018

As the tripura assembly elections coming up on

February 18,prime minister Narendra Modi will

adress two election campaign rallies in

Sonamura and Kailashahar today. This will be

Modi’s first political rally in Tripura after

the 2014 elections. The India- Bangladesh

borders adjoining the Unakoti and Sipahijala

districts of Tripura has been sealed for heavy

security reasons.
The Communist Party of India has been in power

in Tripura for the past 26 years.
Manik Sarkar who is the Chief minister of

tripura will be contesting from his domain for

the fifth consecutive time.He has retained

Dhanpur assembly constituency since 1998.

While the BJP had released its list of

candidates for the Tripura elections, it has

refrained from announcing a chief ministerial

candidate in Tripura.