As 168 polling stations of Tripura goes to repoll on Sunday, electors say peace and safety remain their top priorities for voting. However, others like Prasenjit Kar feel there was not enough ground for repoll and that it was politically engineered. Opposition political parties created a false alarm and confused Election Commission into holding a repoll,” Kar said. These polling stations would undergo fresh polling from 7 am till 5 pm on May 12. Following this, opposition CPI(M) and Congress in Tripura accused the ruling BJP of perpetrating violence and vitiating Lok Sabha elections at West Tripura seat.

Source: Indian Express May 11, 2019 15:00 UTC