Agartala, Mar 13: The newly-elected 41 members of the ruling Left Front today took oath in the Tripura Legislative Assembly while the 19 elected members of the Opposition Congress and INPT combine boycotted the ceremony. Protem speaker Samir Deb Sarkar administered the oath to the elected members in a simple ceremony in the lobby of the assembly.

Members of the Congress-INPT alliance boycotted the ceremony protesting alleged terror being unleashed by ruling CPI-M workers on the Cong-INPT activists after results of assembly elections were declared on march one last.

Bureau Report