No wonder, Dhar claimed, the central government had given 15 awards to the left Front government for successful implementation of various schemes.
Dhar also took credit for ending the four-decade-old insurgency in the state and ensuring peace and development for the people and maintaining communal harmony.
Prominent candidates included Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, finance minister Badal Chowdhury, higher education minister Anil Sarkar, TPCC president Sudip Ray Barman, former chief minister Samir Ranjan Burman, president of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) Bijay Hrankhwal who was a former insurgent.
Prominent leaders who campaigned in the run-up to the election included Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, CPI-M leaders Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, Surya Kanta Mishra and Brinda Karat, Union minister Deepa Das Munshi, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram
The Election Commission has formed flying Squads and Static Surveillance Teams to combat the rising menace of cash dole and bribes and carrying of illegal arms in the run up to the Assembly elections.
Static Surveillance Teams and Flying squads were set up in all 60 Assembly constituencies of the state with police and government officials headed by a magistrate.
The SST would tackle the cash dole crisis while flying squads would keep an eye on the roads to stop movement of HKS
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