{"id":331257,"date":"2021-03-18T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331257"},"modified":"2021-03-18T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:44:13","slug":"157-candidates-in-battle-for-ttaadc-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/157-candidates-in-battle-for-ttaadc-election\/","title":{"rendered":"157 candidates in battle for TTAADC election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331258\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Agartala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Agartala.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Agartala-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Agartala-696x374.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>After 24 candidates withdrew their nomination, a total of 157 candidates are in the fight for the election to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), an official said on Thursday.<br \/>\nTwenty-four applicants mostly Independents withdrew their nomination on the last date for withdrawal of nomination, on Wednesday.<br \/>\nAccording to State Election Commission (SEC), secretary, Prashanta Bhattacharjee&#8221;A total of 24 candidates have withdrawn their nomination papers on March 17, the last date for withdrawal of nomination papers&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe Congress put up 28 candidates in all the 28 seats of the TTAADC, while the CPI (M) has 25 nominees.<br \/>\nBJP has put up 14 candidates while its alliance partner IPFT has 17 nominees. In three seats they are fighting against each other.<br \/>\nThere are 38 independent candidates.<br \/>\nThe TTAADC constitutes two-third of Tripura&#8217;s territory and is home to tribals, who form one-third of the state&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 24 candidates withdrew their nomination, a total of 157 candidates are in the fight for the election to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), an official said on Thursday. Twenty-four applicants mostly Independents withdrew their nomination on the last date for withdrawal of nomination, on Wednesday. According to State Election Commission (SEC), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2014,13983],"tags":[13986,13984,13985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331261,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331257\/revisions\/331261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}