GUWAHATI: Tripura Police on Friday evening 'pushed back' Assam minister of state for power
Pallab Lochan Das
back to his state from Gandacherra in Dhalai distict for violating election rule that bars a person from another state from staying in an election-bound state after the end of campaigning.
SP (Dhalai) SR Das said, "He was found at Gandacherra in the
Raima Valley assembly
constituency area even after campaigning came to an end at 4 pm. As per
Election Commission guidelines, a person from a different state can't stay after the end of campaigning period. So, we escorted him back beyond the assembly constituency. He should now go back to Assam."
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Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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