Khowai Municipal Elections: 13 Left Front Candidates Finally Submit Nomination Papers.

Khowai, Tripura, 3rd of November, 2026 :  A total of 13 Left Front candidates nominated by the CPI(M) finally completed the nomination filing process for the upcoming Khowai Municipal Council elections.

They submitted their papers for 13 out of 15 wards to Sub-Divisional Magistrate and Returning Officer Rimita Saha on Monday (2nd November, 2026).

CPI(M) leaders accused the police administration of failing to provide adequate security, alleging that this prevented their candidates from submitting nomination papers at the scheduled time of 12 noon. Subsequently, at around 3:10 pm, the 13 candidates, accompanied by their proposers, reached the Returning Officer’s office under tight police security and submitted their nomination papers.

The candidates who filed their nomination papers are: Ward No. 1 – Seema Deb Roy; Ward No. 2 – Gautam Pal; Ward No. 3 – Jharna Deb Sarkar; Ward No. 4 – Sagar Pal; Ward No. 5 – Tapas Deb; Ward No. 6 – Manju Deb; Ward No. 7 – Minakshi Das; Ward No. 8 – Samrat Chakraborty; Ward No. 10 – Soma Deb Dutta; Ward No. 11 – Jutan Ghosh; Ward No. 12 – Jayanti Bhattacharya; Ward No. 13 – Sayantika Deb; and Ward No. 14 – Debashish Sarkar (Nupur).