Agartala (Tripura) [India], March 23 (HBTV): Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha participated in a rally and conducted door-to-door campaigning on Friday.  

Speaking to ANI, the chief minister asserted, ‘You can see the excitement in people. They are waiting to vote (for the BJP) keeping in mind Prime Minister Narendra Modi.’    

On the same day, former chief minister of Tripura and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency, Biplab Kumar Deb, on Friday participated in a mega rally in the ADC area of Mandai and Jirania, located in the West Tripura District. 

This rally was a joint event of the BJP and the Tipra Motha alliance.

For the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has named Maharani Kriti Sing Bed Darma the candidate for the East Tripura Lok Sabha Constituency. 

The elections are scheduled to be held in two phases in Tripura. The West Tripura seat will go to the polls on April 19, while the East Tripura seat will witness voting on April 26. The counting of votes will be held on June 4.  

A few days prior to the rally, Ashish Saha, the president of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee, announced that major opposition parties, including CPIM, Congress, Gana Manch, All Tripura Peoples Party, CPI, and CPIML, had formed an alliance under the banner of the INDIA Alliance. This alliance aims to challenge the BJP government in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. 

(ANI) This is a syndicated news feed. HBTV has edited it for clarity.