AGARTALA, Nov 5 (TIWN): The final photo voter lists for the ensuing Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), 13 Municipal Councils and 6 Nagar Panchayats was announced on Wednesday by state election department. Besides the list of names of SDM and BDOs appointed for one zilla parishad seat, one panchayat samiti seat and 25 wards of gram panchayat was also announced. There are 5 lakhs,37 thousand,986 voters. Among them 2 lakhs,69 thousands and 214 are male voters and 2 lakhs,68 thousands and 754 are female voters. Meanwhile a all party meeting was held at on Wednesday at conference hall of civil secretariat. The meeting was attended by all major political parties – CPI(M), Congress, BJP, CPI, Forward bloc, RSP, Trinamool Congress. State election commission GK Rao chaired the meeting.

It is mentionable here that  elections to the urban local bodies would be held with 50 percent of seats reserved for women, Keeping in view the ensuing elections of civic bodies in Tripura, scheduled to come off in December next, the state government has increased the number of seats in all civic bodies of the state comprising municipal corporation, municipal councils and Nagar Panchayats. Apart from this 8 municipal councils across Tripura have also increased their seats by a total of 18, seats for the Nagar Panchayats were not increased. In the government notification a total of one municipal corporation, 13 municipal councils and six Nagar Panchayats seats have been declared in the notification for ensuing civic bodies’ election.