{"id":178644,"date":"2021-12-07T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=178644"},"modified":"2021-12-07T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:43:26","slug":"dipak-majumder-to-be-mayor-of-agartala-municipal-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/dipak-majumder-to-be-mayor-of-agartala-municipal-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipak Majumder to be Mayor of Agartala Municipal Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agartala, Dec 6 (PTI) BJP leader Dipak Majumder will take oath as Mayor of the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) on December 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision was taken in a meeting of the state committee of the ruling BJP in presence of the party&#8217;s central observer Vinod Sonkar, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik, and state president of the saffron party Manik Saha on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Majumder, chairman of the Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC), had contested from Ward No 16 of the AMC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of the 222 seats across 14 urban bodies that went to the polls on November 25, the BJP had emerged victorious in 217.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the total 324 municipal seats in Tripura, the saffron party had won 112 seats uncontested across 20 urban local bodies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not a single opposition candidate could win from any ward of the 51-member AMC this time, all of which went to the BJP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The saffron party had contested its first civic polls after it stormed to power in the north-eastern state in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala, Dec 6 (PTI) BJP leader Dipak Majumder will take oath as Mayor of the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) on December 9. The decision was taken in a meeting of the state committee of the ruling BJP in presence of the party&#8217;s central observer Vinod Sonkar, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}