India, Feb. 9 -- Ahead of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls, barely two months away, differences within the ruling alliance have sharpened, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) signalling its intent to contest all 28 seats of the autonomous council.

The term of the TTAADC ends on April 18. Although the state election commission is yet to announce the poll schedule, political mobilisation has already begun across the state.

"We are in an alliance with TIPRA Motha in the assembly. But we are opponents in the TTAADC. We have not yet decided with whom we shall go (forging an alliance) or not for the TTAADC poll. We shall be ready for all 28 seats of the TTAADC," Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said.

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