The Left Front returns to power for a fifth straight term since 1993
The CPI(M) led the Left Front to power in Tripura with a steamroller majority. The Congress managed to bag 10 seats, down from 11, while its alliance partners, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) and Nationalist Council of Twipra (NCT), drew a blank.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and CPI(M) stalwarts Badal Choudhury, Anil Sarkar, Manik Dey, Tapan Chakraborty and Jitendra Choudhury were re-elected with comfortable margins. Badal Choudhury defeated his Congress rival by 12,000 votes. Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura since 1998, won for the fourth time from Dhanpur constituency with a margin of over 6,000 votes. PCC president Sudip Roy Burman and Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath retained their seats, but party MLAs — Subal Bhowmik, Monoj Kanti Deb and Surajit Datta — lost. Samir Ranjan Burman, former Chief Minister and father of the current PCC chief, lost.
The defeat of INPT’s lone MLA and its president Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawl at Ambassa came as a surprise. The Congress won Karamchara, reserved for tribals, and Barjala, reserved for Scheduled Castes. The Congress candidate from Barjala, Jitendra Sarkar, was the speaker of the State Assembly and a CPI(M) deserter.
The Left Front had its surprises, too, with RSP Minister Joy Govinda Debbaroy losing from Radhakishorepur constituency. The lone RSP and Forward Block candidates lost, but one of two CPI candidates won.
The counting got underway amidst massive security arrangements. The election commission appointed 60 central observers to oversee the counting process after a record turnout of 94 per cent.
This is the fifth consecutive victory for the Left Front in Tripura.
Keywords: North-eastern states poll results, Meghalaya Assembly polls, Tripura Assembly polls, Nagaland Assembly polls
God bless them, having gone CPIM/Left for the fourth time they seem to
not have had enough, they wish to go the West Bengal way, till the very
end, to a point of no return .The Left Parties are synonymous with
destitution and corruption just wait and watch in another couple of
years, the people of Tripura will finally have had enough.Its in the
human nature we never get it until its too late.
More power to Manik Sarkar and his government. Very happy for Tripura.
This just goes to show that honesty,integrity and humility in public
life coupled with a genuine urge to serve ones own people would always
be rewarded with fruitful results.In today's world wherein
intolerance,communalism and corruption have become rampant and have
spread their ugly wings across,time is ripe for us to look forward
with a positive outlook.One cannot deny the fact that communism and
left have enormous positives in them,one of the key elements being an
inclusive society approach.Time in again history has proved that
capitalism practiced in a ruthless manner had always destroyed many
societies and races.Collective,Inclusive & Equitable approach in a
caste free society with zero tolerance to communalism with enormous
open mind for scientific advancement and research in the interest of
this universe and mankind is the clear way forward....
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