Transport crisis as Tripura election authority hires vehicles
Agartala, Jan 29 : Tripura has been facing a serious crisis of public transport as the state election authority hired vehicles to ferry security personnel from Guwahati ahead of the assembly polls, transport officials said here today
About 1500 vehicles were required to bring an estimated force of 259 companies of CRPF, CISF, ITBP, SSB and BSF from the railway station during the past three days but the requisition came at eleventh hour, the officials said
The state goes to polls on February 23
According to a report, the Assam government initially agreed to provide vehicles to carry the forces from Guwahati to different parts of Tripura. But later they refused to manage the vehicles that put the department in a spot
From school buses to ambulances and all other public goods and passenger carriers had been booked by the transport officials and sent to Guwahati, irking the people