AGARTALA , July 28 (TIWN) : Amidst speculation of Team Sudip's joining BJP , suddenly suspense has started to grip about MLA Dilip Sarkar's role . According to Dilip Sarkar's close aids the MLA from Badharghat has not made its view clear about joining BJP as he is yet to get confirmation of candidature from BJP . At the same time Dilip Sarkar's health is also a major concern as he almost remains at home most of the time of the year . TIWN sources reveal that BJP is likely to nominate a young leader from the Badraghat seat in 2018 election . If everything goes well BJP won't likely to nominate Dilip Sarkar and in this case Dilip Sarkar too is not 100% sure of his joining BJP . According to his close aids , Dilip Sarkar was not even willing to join TMC in 2015 but he had to succumb to the pressure of Sudip Roy Barman and Mukul Roy . Even though he voted for BJP's Presidential candidate Ramnath Kovind , Dilip Sarkar is yet to make his mind clear about joining the BJP .

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AGARTALA, July 28 (TIWN): With the shutdown of ONGC Tripura may undergo heavy crisis for 20 days since August-19. The shutdown will affect Udaipur based Palatana OTPC project heavily as along with ONGC OTPC will remained closed for 20 days at a stress. However, talking to Power Minister Manik Dey in this regard, he couldn't say anything clearly about the upcoming situation but just said, "We are arranging something alternative". But what will this 'alternative' it was not clear whereas the Minister said 'Govt is thinking over it'. When asked whether state would face any load shedding problem during that period, Minister just remained mute without any confirmation saying 'alternative management to be done'.
"What to do as this is a yearly maintenance work. They also have visitors from outside", said Dey. Asking about whereas NEEPCO will be affected by this shutdown, Dey said, "Only Udaipur based Palatana will be affected so far".

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AGARTALA, July 27 (TIWN): With a surprise in SFI ruled Tipura school students have come in massive protest with the demand of 'quality education' and asked for providing teachers in senior classes or shut down the senior classes. The students of Ananda Vidya Niketan H S School led by senior students held a protest by blocking road and showing banners with their various demands. Among all the demands, diminishing the teacher crisis problem was the topmost demand of the students as a huge number of students are now leaving the school due to lack of teachers. Whereas at Netaji, Tulshibati schools teachers are more than the need, but at the same time another school in the Capital City, is hitting with teacher crisis.

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