Tripura: CPIM tells EC to ensure voting rights of TSR troopers posted outside 

Agartala: Opposition CPIM on Friday asked the Chief Election Commissioner to make sure that Tripura State Rifles troopers posted outside the state can cast their votes in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.

According to the principal opposition party of the state, around 2,000 TSR troopers are posted outside Tripura under different assignments.

“Let me bring to your kind notice that, two battalions TSR (Tripura State Rifles) Jawans, more than 2000 are now deputed in Delhi and Chattisgarh. They are performing security duties in various government establishments in those states. Most of the Jawans belong to Tripura and their names have been enrolled in the updated electoral roll,” a letter by the Leader of Opposition and CPIM MLA Jitendra Choudhury addressing CEC reads.

The CPIM MLA urged the poll panel to either arrange postal ballots for the eligible voters or set up special polling booths for the TSR Jawans posted in Delhi and Chattisgarh.

“While we boast of the democratic system of our country as an ‘inclusive democracy’ it is indecent to leave such a big number of electors deprived of the right to franchise in the ongoing Lok Sabha election, only because they are performing a noble duty for the interest of the country. Thus, I request the Commission to ensure voting rights of these Jawans by providing scope of postal ballot or arranging designated centre of polling booths in their respective place of posting both in Delhi and Chattisgarh,” the letter concludes.

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