Tripura Assembly Election 2018: Nomination of 307 candidates out of 320 across all parties found valid

Agartala: A total of 320 nominations from different political parties and independent candidates have been filed for the 18 February Assembly elections in Tripura, official sources said on Friday. [caption id=“attachment_3765183” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. CNN News18[/caption] Of them, nominations of 307 candidates were found valid after a scrutiny held on Thursday, the sources said. “Thirteen nominations were rejected of which five were dummy candidates of BJP and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura and one of Trinamool Congress. The rest were from independent candidates,” Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Debasish Modak told PTI_._ He said the nominations were rejected on technical grounds like some candidates did not file affidavits or in some cases their papers were not submitted according to official procedures. Another Additional CEO, Tapas Ray said the first phase of mock poll training for the officials engaged in election works was completed in five districts out of the total eight and the training for the rest three districts would be held soon. The dates are yet to be finalized, he said. Besides, trainings for police officials, expenditure monitoring and IT applications are on, he said. The election result for the 60-member Assembly would be announced on 3 March.