The Bharatiya Janata Party strategy of changing chief minister ‘s mid- way has worked wonders again. This time it returned to power in the state of Tripura by winning 32 seats and its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) winning one.
The 2-year old party has become the second biggest party in Tripura due to blessing of people…I have congratulated Tripura CM, whenever we will conduct talks, I will talk about the issue…: Tipra Motha Chairman, Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma told ANI
According to the Election Commission as reported by ANI, , the BJP had a vote share of around 39 per cent. Tipra Motha Party came second by winning 13 seats.
#WATCH | Tripura: Celebrations at BJP office in Agartala as the party has won 15 and is leading on 18 of the total 60 seats in the state.
CM Manik Saha, former CM and party MP Biplab Deb & party leader Sambit Patra join in the celebrations. pic.twitter.com/V1SWlYQN70
— ANI (@ANI) March 2, 2023
The Communist Party of India-Marxist got 11 seats while Congress bagged three. The CPI-M and the Congress, arch rivals in Kerala, came together in the Northeast this time in a bid to oust the BJP from power.
The combined vote share of CPI-M and Congress remained around 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 assembly, the majority mark is 31.
We had said earlier also that BJP will once again form the government with the majority and the results so far are showing that we are forming the government. I thank PM Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh and all party workers, Tripura CM Manik Saha after poll win told ANI
