IPFT MLAs and workers are likely to be joining Pradyot Debbarma’s TIPRA in large numbers, say insiders. This is likely to cost IPFT’s alliance partner BJP come February.

The incident took place at City Centre, a shopping complex, in the heart of Agartala, incidentally within weeks after the city organised its first Queer Pride Parade.

A senior official of the Tripura government said administration has "cleared that temple structure." It has also imposed Section 144 of the CrPC in and around the area.

A letter, signed by 15 senior BJP leaders in the state, accuses state party chief Manik Saha of not playing an active enough role in the party's functioning.

With assembly elections a year away in the state, the resignations of Sudip Roy Barman and Asish Kumar Saha could cost Tripura BJP dear.

The four have alleged that they were forced to strip in a police station, and their videos were released to taunt them. Police said they were held because they couldn't give 'satisfactory replies' to why they had cross-dressed.

One of the protesters alleged that she paid a bribe to a BJP leader for a job, while another protester alleged that a senior party leader promised her to give a job in the TSR recruitment drive.

When Pakistani forces targeted the Indian state capital during the 1971 war, Lance Naik Ekka single-handedly silenced two enemy machine guns and ensured the freedom of the city.

Three people were injured in the clash and the TIPRA chief himself was heckled.

'Since the beginning of the poll process the ruling party in connivance with the government machinery has attempted to manipulate everything,' the CPI(M) said.

The opposition accused the BJP of sheltering "goons" who forcefully captured polling booths and also allegedly threatened the voters. However, the BJP denied these allegations.

The TMC has said that the state BJP government is targeting its leaders and supporters ahead of the upcoming civic elections.

Sudip Roy Barman has alleged that a fear psychosis has been spread among the electorate ahead of urban local bodies' election in the state on November 25, and the police are failing to address the issue.

The Trinamool Congress also alleged that despite submitting evidence to the police, action has not been initiated against those who attacked the party's candidates.

The commission has given the chief secretary and DGP a period of four weeks to submit the report.

'There can be no reiteration that the state owes its responsibilities' in the maintenance of law and order and in 'providing citizens with the security to protect their life, livelihood as well as their properties,' the HC said.

While the rally was ostensibly a protest against communal violence in Bangladesh, the scenes witnessed in the northeastern state were starkly reminiscent of the violence itself.

In the aftermath of communal violence in Bangladesh, the Tripura State Jamiat Ulama had said that mosque and houses of minorities were attacked.

Right-wing groups reportedly gathered in communally sensitive areas even after being denied permission by the police.

More than 10 persons were injured and six vehicles were set ablaze in Tripura on September 8, after alleged BJP workers attacked offices of three media houses and three offices of the CPI(M).