With the declaration of outcomes for the Tripura Assembly polls on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to energy within the state by successful 32 seats and its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) successful one.
IMAGE: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha flashes the victory signal after successful within the meeting elections from the Town Bardowali constituency, in West Tripura district, on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Photograph: PTI Photo
According to the Election Commission, the BJP had a vote share of round 39 per cent.
Tipra Motha Party got here second by successful 13 seats.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist bought 11 seats whereas Congress bagged three.
The CPI-M and the Congress, arch rivals in Kerala, got here collectively within the Northeast this time in a bid to oust the BJP from energy.
The mixed vote share of CPI-M and Congress remained round 33 per cent.
Chief Minister Manik Saha defeated Congress’ Asish Kumar Saha from the Town Bordowali seat by a margin of 1,257 votes.
In the 60-member Tripura meeting, the bulk mark is 31.
The BJP, which had by no means gained a single seat in Tripura earlier than 2018, stormed to energy within the final election in alliance with IPFT and had ousted the Left Front which had been in energy within the border state for 35 years since 1978.
The BJP contested on 55 seats and its ally, IPFT, on six seats. But each allies had fielded candidates within the Ampinagar constituency within the Gomati district.
The Left contested on 47 and Congress on 13 seats, respectively.
Of the entire 47 seats, the CPI-M contested 43 seats whereas the Forward Bloc, Communist Party of India and Revolutionary Socialist Party contested one seat every.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front dominated the state for practically 4 many years, with a niche between 1988 and 1993, when the Congress was in energy however now each events joined palms with the intention to oust BJP from energy.