Agartala: The main opposition TIPRA Motha moved High Court against the Tripura government accusing the state of flouting the direction of the court regarding holding Village Council elections under Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC).
However, Advocate General Siddhartha Shankar Dey informed the court to submit the response on April 13 next. Earlier, the high court had directed the State Election Commissioner to conduct the polls within November last year, but the order was not complied with.
TIPRA Motha legislator Brishaketu Debbarma and party leader Anthony Debbarma filed a petition in High Court on Thursday seeking polls to the village committees, the term of which expired in March 2021 but the state election commission did not take any efforts to conduct the elections.
The petition highlighted the problems faced by the Village Committees in absence of elected committees. Admitting the petition, the Chief Justice expressed his dissatisfaction over the two years delay in conducting the polls.
The Advocate General argued for several reasons like enrollment of the names of newly settled Bru migrants in the electoral rolls and the assembly elections behind the delay in polls.
