Agartala (Tripura) [India], Jan 24 (NT): The ruling Left Front of Tripura on Tuesday announced its list of candidates for the 60-member state Assembly elations, with introducing ten fresh faces.

The list was declared by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) state secretary and recently elected Left Front's convener Bijan Dhar in attendance of other leaders.

The released list consists of 57 CPIM candidates, while other association parties Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Forward Block (FB) have one contestant each.

Though, in the 2013 assembly polls, the Left Front partners were given five seats  in which  CPI had two, FB  had one  and RSP  had two.

Dhar has cited that the candidates were selected on the basis of the winning chances.

This is the first time when the CPIM has declared Manik Sarkar as the Chief Ministerial candidate ahead of time.

"The Left Front shall be fighting the election on the issues of peace, tranquillity and harmony and which is very important at a time when decisive forces like Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra and Bharatiya Janata Party has formed an alliance to defeat the left front in the state", said Dhar as quoted by ANI.

As per the EC directions The Assembly Polls in Tripura is slated to be held on February 14 and the counting will take place on March 3. (NT)

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