Tripura

He indicated that BJP will appoint new president shortly and reconstitute the party functionaries.

The first BJP-IPFT government assumed power in Tripura on Friday as 48-year old Biplab Kumar Deb was sworn in as the new Tripura Chief Minister.

BJP president Amit Shah cautions party workers against violence or “destruction” of any statue, says party firmly “believes” that a wide range of ideas and ideologies can coexist in India

Modi was greeted with the slogan “Jeet hamari jari hai, ab Karnataka ki bari hai” (Our winning spree continues, now it’s time to win in Karnataka). Assembly elections in Karnataka are due in May this year.

The Congress party also issued a statement saying it had directed its rank and file to back "secular party candidates to save the people from sinking in the 'Hindutva quicksand'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to campaign in Phulbari in Garo Hills on February 21 or 22, a key source in Meghalaya's BJP unit told UNI. 

With Assembly polls drawing closer, many feel that while the BJP has intensified its campaign, the CPM has used all of its trump cards too soon

Hoping to capitalise on the anti-incumbency created by the 25-year-long CPM rule, the BJP is campaigning aggressively to make inroads into the state

The Election Commission today announced a two-rounds poll schedule for Assembly Elections for Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland with elections in Tripura scheduled on February 18 and that for Nagaland and Meghalaya on February 27.

The Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura (IPFT) is mulling the possibility of forming an alliance with the BJP, keeping aside their demand of separate Twipraland for tribals in the upcoming Assembly elections.