Agartala, Jan 29, 2023, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala Jan 29: Tripura Trinamool Congress on Sunday announced its first list of candidates for 22 assembly constituencies to contest the Tripura assembly polls, 2023.

Announcing the names of selected candidates, Tripura Trinamool Congress In-charge Rajib Banerjee said, “A total of 129 applications were received from aspirants across Tripura and later after several rounds of discussion within the leadership of Tripura Trinamool Congress, a primary list was sent to TMC High Command for final approval”.

“We are primarily announcing a list of 22 candidates and the final list will be announced soon”, he added.

The list mentions; Nihar Ranjan Sarkar 3-Bamutia, Pujan Biswas 7-Ramnagar, Nirmal Majumder 10-Majlishpur, Sutapa Ghosh 15-Kamalasagar, Haradhan Debnath 16-Bishalgarh, Joydul Hossain 20-Boxanagar, Neel Kamal Saha 22-Sonamura, Habil Miah 23-Dhanpur, Rabi Choudhury 28-Teliamura, Narendra Reang 36-Santirbazar, Kaang Jari Mog 38-Jolaibari, Biplab Saha 42-Amarpur, Milton Chakma 43-Karbook, Suman Dey 45-Kamalpur, Arjun Namashudra 46-Surma, Chandan Mog 47-Ambassa, Raupayan Chakma 49-Chawmanu, Bidyut Bikas Sinha 52-Chandipur, Abdul Matin 53-Kaisahar, Bimal Nath 55-Bagbasa and Purnita Chakma to contest from 59-Pecharthal seat.

Meanwhile, former Congress MLA from Jolaibari constituency, Dilip Choudhury joined the Trinamool Congress on Sunday.