Tripura Pradesh Congress has convened a meeting of party’s all leaders of the state on June 18 next to decide their next course of action over alliance with Left Front in the upcoming three-tier Panchayat elections.

Speaking with media persons at Agartala press club on Saturday during one day workshop of all district and block Youth Congress presidents, senior Congress leader and MLA Sudip Roy Barman said that Tripura Pradesh Congress president Ashish Kumar Saha has convened a meeting of all state leaders of Congress on June 18 to take feedback from its leaders on the alliance with Left parties for the three-tier Panchayat elections in the state.

In last year’s assembly elections and the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the Congress forged an alliance with the Left parties but could not succeed.

Roy Barman said a concrete decision on the alliance with the Left parties for the Panchayat elections will be taken after considering the views of leaders from districts and blocks.

He said that after Lok Sabha elections, the youths of the country as well as youths of Tripura are now seeing a new hope and they are now being united against oppression and deprival politics of BJP government in Tripura.

“Today’s workshop has been organized with an aim to raise awareness among the youths of the state against their deprival politics of the ruling party and thousands of unemployed youths will decide their future course of action to protect their rights,” said Roy Barman.

He also said that the workshop is a timely step by Youth Congress to strengthen their fight against BJP governments for their anti-youth policies. The youths under the banner of Youth Congress will also jointly strengthen their movements against drug-menaces in the state.

Meanwhile, a five-member delegation of Congress met the State Election Commissioner (SEC) and demanded free, fair and peaceful Panchayat polls.

“The opposition parties could not field their candidates in 95 per cent of the total seats in Zilla Parishads, Panchayat Samities and Gram Panchayats during the last elections. We requested the state election panel to take steps so that opposition parties could submit their nomination papers during the scheduled time and suggested online submission of nomination papers for the Panchayat elections," said Pradesh Congress leader after the meeting with the SEC. Congress leaders demand deployment of Central Arms Police Forces (CAPF) to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections.