Agartala, June 14: Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) doesn’t have any unit in Tripura, a candidate, who fought 2023 Tripura assembly polls under the banner of this party, told Tripura Tribune this evening.

NCPI that until now had remained largely unknown in Tripura and other parts of the country suddenly found itself at the centre of political discussions with the rebel TMC group decided to merge with it.

According to information available with ECI website, two NCPI candidates- Jahangir Ali and Brajendra Tripura fought 2023 Assembly Polls in Tripura from Kailashahar and Chawmanu assembly constituencies and they had lost the poll battle. NCPI is a registered unrecognised party.

When Tripura Tribune reached out to Jahangir Ali of Kailashahar over telephone, he categorically said, the NCPI was not a Tripura based party; rather the chief of the party- Shiuli Kundu was from West Bengal.

He also informed our correspondent that the NCPI does not have any functional state committee.

As it appeared, the TMC rebel group is ‘deliberately’ linking Tripura with the NCPI due to some political reasons. However, as they spoke to national media saying NCPI as Tripura-based party, it shocked the political circles in the state.

Meanwhile, the rebel and majority bloc within the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary team in the Lok Sabha, under the leadership of two four-time Lok Sabha members, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy, announced the decision to join the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), calling it a Tripura-based party.

The rebel MPs made an official request in this regard by submitting a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker on Sunday.