Amit Shah To Campaign In Tripura On April 7 For Lok Sabha Election 2024

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will soon be visiting Tripura for a two-day stint starting April 7, where he is set to address a rally and hold a roadshow in Agartala as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, as per a party official.

According to the official, a meeting will also be chaired by Shah with the party leaders besides holding discussions with BJP's candidates in the two Lok Sabha seats - Biplab Kumar Deb and Kriti Singh Debbarma.

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Amit Shah To Campaign In Tripura

Before Agartala, a political rally is scheduled to be addressed by the Union home minister at Aalo in the West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on April 6.

Apart from Shah, other star campaigners, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Arjun Munda, Sarbananda Sonowal, and BJP President JP Nadda are expected to visit Tripura for the campaign, though their visit schedule has not yet been finalized.

Elections for the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat are slated for April 19, while the Tripura East parliamentary constituency will go to polls on April 26. Vote counting is scheduled for June 4.

On March 27, nomination papers were filed by BJP candidate and former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb as a party candidate from the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat.

For the Tripura East parliamentary seat, the party has fielded Kriti Singh Debbarma, princess of the erstwhile Manikya dynasty and elder sister of TIPRA Motha party founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma.