Exit polls have predicted that the BJP would dethrone the 25-year-old
Left Front government in Tripura and consolidate its position in the
other two states.
Though the strength of Tripura assembly is 60, voting was held for 59
constituencies. Voting in the Charilam (reserved for tribals) has been
deferred to March 12 after the death of a CPM candidate.
State minister
and CPM candidate Khagendra Jamataia passed away on the eve of results on Friday March 02,2018,
but counting is being held in his Krishnapur constituency as per
schedule.
The BJP has come back strongly to catch-up to the CPM in Tripura. Both
parties are neck-and-neck in the fight, and both their CM candidates,
Manik Sarkar and Biplab Kumar Deb, are leading in their respective
constituencies
Of the 59 Assembly seats, the BJP and its ally Indigenous People's Front
of Tripura (IPFT) bagged 43. The BJP won 35 seats and the IPFT won
eight.
The CPM could get only 16 seats and the Congress drew a blank.
This marks the end of Manik Sarkar's two decades as Tripura chief
minister.
For the ruling CPM, the results came as a shocker
The CPM members shied away from speaking with the media, but issued a statement conceding defeat and contending that the BJP, apart from other factors, utilised massive deployment of money and other resources to influence the elections
Tripura has been among the Left Front's longstanding bastions, which is why its drubbing at the hands of the BJP-IPFT alliance marks the beginning of a new chapter in the state's polity. In the state Assembly elections since 1983, the BJP had never polled more than 2 percent votes, except in 1998 when it polled 5.87 percent votes.
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