New Delhi, Jan 24: Former Chief Ministers Samir Ranjan Barman and Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar and PCC president Birajit Sinha figure in the list of 41 Congress candidates for the Tripura Assembly polls scheduled next month. While barman will contest from Bilasgarh, Majumdar is the candidate from Sonamura and Sinha from Kailasahar, according to the list released by party leader Mani Shankar Ayyar, who is incharge of the party affairs in the north east. State Youth Congress president Sudip Roy Barman and former PCC presidents Ashok Kumar Bhattacharjee and Gopal Chandra Roy have also been nominated. A decision on the Rajnagar (SC) seat is pending.
Congress has an alliance with the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), which has been allotted 18 of the total 60 seats.

Bureau Report