The ruling BJP in Tripura on Friday announced a 16-member election ꦡmanagement committee with the party's state president Rajib Bhattacharjee as its head, months before the state goes to ꦉthe polls.
Chief Minist𝓡er Man🎀ik Saha, Rajya Sabha MP Biplab Kumar Deb, Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Devvarma, and MP Rebati Tripura were among those named as its members.
BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra, who is the coordinator for Northeast, and state in-charge Mahesh Sharma was made special invitees to the comm✃ittee, party spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharjee said.
Patra is scheduled to visit the state on October 19 and 20 to streamline t🌠he party's preparedness for the 2023 assembly elections, sources said.
BJP's national general secretary BL Santosh is likely to visi🦄t the state on October 21, they said.
Santosh🍸 and Patra attended the party's strategic meetings held at Hapania fairground last month to prepare a roadmap for the election.
The BJP runs the government in the Northeastern state in alliance with the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a♉fter storming to power in 2018, ousting the Left Front government of 25 years.
The tenure ꦬof the present assembly is scheduled to expire in the first week of March next ye𒁏ar.
(Inputs from PTI)
