Twelve new faces and all the sitting ministers figured in the ruling Left Front's list of 60 candidates for the upcoming Tripura assembly polls. Left Front has announced list of candidates for upcoming #Tripura assembly elections. The Left Front government, which is in power in Tripura for the past 25 years, is facing a challenge from a resurgent BJP. The Left Front government headed by the CPI(M) is in government in Tripura since 1993. The BJP, which has sealed a pre-poll alliance with the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a powerful anti- Left tribal party, is yet to declare its candidates.

Source: dna January 23, 2018 19:18 UTC