2018 Tripura Assembly Elections on Feb 18,2018 - Nominations of 307 candidates cleared after scrutiny Thursday Feb 01,2018

 

A total of 320 nominations from different political parties and independent candidates have been filed for the February 18 Assembly elections in Tripura

Of them, nominations of 307 candidates were found valid after a scrutiny held on Thursday Feb 01,2018

“Thirteen nominations were rejected of which five were dummy candidates of BJP and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura and one of Trinamool Congress. The rest were from independent candidates,” Additional Chief Electoral Officer Debasish Modak said.
He said the nominations were rejected on technical grounds like some candidates did not file affidavits or in some cases their papers were not submitted according to official procedures.