New Delhi, Jan 09, 2023, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/ TT

New Delhi, Jan 09: The Election Commission will visit Tripura and two other poll-bound states in the north-east this week to review preparations for the exercise.

Besides Tripura, Assembly elections will be held in Meghalaya and Nagaland.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel, will visit these three states beginning January 11, EC sources said here Monday.

The three northeastern states will be the first to have assembly polls this year, most likely in February-March.

The terms of their respective Legislative Assemblies is ending on different dates in March.

While Tripura has a BJP government, in Nagaland, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party is in power. National People's Party, the only party from the North-East to have a national party recognition, runs the government in Meghalaya.