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Tripura election result: Massive boost for Narendra Modi, BJP muscles out Manik Sarkar; Biplad Deb likely chief minister

Tripura election result: The saffron party has demolished the  decades  long  Left government and is all set to form the government in the state. Rahul Gandhi led Congress has been drubbed in the state. Sources indicate that Biplab Deb has emerged as the chief ministerial candidate

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Tripura election result: Massive boost for Narendra Modi, BJP muscles out Manik Sarkar; Biplad Deb likely chief minister
Tripura election result: BJP supporters smear colors on each other to celebrate BJP''s win, which brought down 25 years of CPI-M government rule, after Tripura Assembly election results were announced, in Agartala on Saturday. Image source: PTI
Written By: ZeeBiz WebTeam
Updated: Sat, Mar 03, 2018
02:15 pm
ZeeBiz WebDesk

Tripura election result: It is nothing short of a massive good news for PM Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The saffron party has demolished the decades long Left government and is all set to form the government in the state. Rahul Gandhi led Congress has been drubbed in the state. Sources indicate that Biplab Deb has emerged as the chief ministerial candidate. Putting up a spectacular show, the BJP and its ally, the Indigenous People`s Front of Tripura, were headed for a landslide electoral victory in Tripura on Saturday, ousting the CPI-M-lead Left Front that was in power in the state for the last 25 years. In fact, this was the last bastion of the Communist party (CPI-M).

As per the latest trends of all 59 constituencies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in 32 seats while the tribal party was ahead in eight after the first and second round of counting of votes.
The BJP had no MLA in the 60-member House and had got only 1.5 per cent votes in the 2013 assembly elections. 

According to the trends of the results, BJP-IPFT alliance was headed to secure 40 seats, nine seats more than the simple majority figure of 31. The Left Front was leading in only 19 seats. "We are happy with the trends in Tripura where the BJP looks like forming a government with 40 or more seats," BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav told reporters here.

He conceded that the CPI-M gave a good fight in Tripura but people voted for change to throw up "a revolutionary verdict, a historic verdict".  In the 2013 assembly elections, the Left Front had secured 50 seat. The Congress, which had 10 members in the outgoing assembly, has failed to even open its account this time. Many of its candidates may even lose their deposits.
Among the BJP winners were state President Biplab Kumar Deb (Banamalipur), Sudip Roy Barman (Agartala), Ratanlal Nath (Mohanpur), A. Rampada Jamatia (Bagma), Dilip Kumar Das (Barjala), Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl (Karamchara), Ashish Kumar Saha (Bordowali), Ratan Chakraborty (Khayerpur), Atul Debbarma (Krishnapur), Sushanta Chowdhury (Majlishpur).

IPFT`s leading candidates included Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Takarjala), Mevar Kumar Jamatia (Asharambari) and Prashanta Debbarma (Ramchandraghat). Among the notable Left candidates trailing were sitting Tribal Welfare Minister Aghore Debbarma (Asharambari), Forest and Rural Development Minister Narensh Chandra Jamatia (Bagma), Deputy Speaker Pabitra Kar (Khayerpur), Bijay Laxmi Sinha (Kamalpur), Samiran Malakar (Pabiachara), Manoranjan Debbarma (Mandai Bazar), Ratan Das (Ramnagar), Manindra Chandra Das (Kalyanpur-Promodnagar) and Chief Whip Basudeb Majumder (Belonia).

Among the Left Front`s leading candidates were Chief Minister and CPI-M politburo member Manik Sarkar (Dhanpur constituency), Health and PWD Minister Badal Choudhury (Hrishamukh), Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty (Chandipur), Information, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha (Bishalgarh), Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Sahid Chowdhury, Assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debbarma and Jail Minister Manindra Reang.

A three-tier security is in place in 20 locations across the state where 59 counting halls have been set up to count votes. The Election Commission has appointed 47 general observers and eight police observers to oversee the counting process.

A total of 290 candidates, including 23 women of the ruling CPI-M, Communist Party of India, BJP and Congress and many independents, were in the fray. Polling in Charilam (reserved for the tribals) was deferred to March 12 after CPI-M candidate Ramendra Narayan Debbarma died a week before the February 18 polls.

Over 92 per cent (excluding 50,700 postal ballots) of Tripura`s over 25 lakh voters cast their votes on February 18 in a peaceful election, setting a new record in India`s electoral history.

(With inputs from IANS)
 

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