Send More Forces To Tripura ASAP: Supreme Court To Centre Amid Civic Polls [25.11.2021]

Tripura Civic Body Polls:Tripura is holding civic body polls today but the opposition has alleged BJP workers are bullying their candidates, as well as not allowing all voters to enter polling booths.


New Delhi: Two additional companies of CAPF (central armed police forces) should be deployed in Tripura "as expeditiously as possible", the Supreme Court said this morning, amid claims by opposition parties that workers of the ruling BJP were harassing and intimidating voters in the northeastern state.
These personnel will remain deployed till counting of votes on November 28, the court added.

Tripura is holding civic body polls today, voting for which began at 7 am.

However, the opposition, including the Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M) have alleged BJP workers are bullying their candidates, as well as not allowing all voters to enter polling booths. Gangs with masked faces are going door to door warning voters to stay home, the parties have alleged.

One video tweeted by the Trinamool shows a man in a black shirt brazenly walking up to a woman trying to vote. He leans over the cardboard screen that is supposed to give the voter privacy, and seems to press a button on the EVM, after which the woman just walks away.


26 Nov 2021