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Tripura Assembly Election Results 2023 Highlights: Holi came early in Tripura as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returned to power in the state by winning an absolute majority. According to the Election Commission BJP won 32 seats with a vote share of around 39 percent. Tipra Motha Party came second by winning 13 seats. Communist Party of India (Marxist) got 11 seats while Congress bagged three seats. The Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) managed to open its account by winning one seat.
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-BJP-IPFT alliance returns to power in Tripura winning 33 seats in the 60-member assembly.
-The Tipra Motha, formed by former scion of the state's princely family Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, bagged 13 seats.
-The Left-Congress alliance secured 14, with Debbarma's party eating into the Lefts tribal votes.
-The Trinamool Congress performed poorly winning none of the 28 seats it contested. Its vote share (0.88 per cent) came to less than that of those who stamped None-Of-The-Above (NOTA).
-- BJP contested in 55 seats and won 32, three less than what it bagged in 2018. The party also secured 38.97 per cent of the votes polled. The IPFT, which was affected by factional fight, managed to emerge victorious in only one seat, while it had got eight seats five years back. Its vote share this time was a meagre 1.26 per cent.
The Congress said the assembly election results in the northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya were "disappointing" for it, but touted its victory in three assembly bypolls in as many states as "encouraging".
Congress general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh said the party would soon assess the assembly poll results and take corrective measures to strengthen the organisation.
''BJP's victory was expected… We were eagerly waiting for it. Our responsibility has increased now. We will walk in the direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows us. In Tripura, elections so far was a direct fight between two parties. This is for the first time, a triangular fight was witnessed in the state,'' Tripura CM Manik Saha told reporters.
"Be it Tripura or Nagaland, in fact in Meghalaya also our seats have increased...BJP has earned a glorious victory and I thank people of all 3 states for that...the possibility of two-third govt cannot be neglected," Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said.
The BJP-IPFT alliance has so far won 31 seats and are leading on another 2 seats, according to EC website at 5 pm. The BJP bagged 30 seats while the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) got one. The saffron party is leading in two more seats as results of 57 seats were declared.
Manik Saha had taken oath as the Tripura’s chief minister on May 15, 2022, a day after Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from the post.The professor of dental surgery steered the party’s campaign in the run-up to the 2023 assembly polls held on February 16.
Though the party has not decided the chief ministerial candidate in Tripura, Saha is seen as the frontrunner for the post. After a long association with the Indian National Congress, Saha shifted to the BJP camp in 2016.
BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee was trailing by 1,369 votes in the Banamalipur seat as Congress candidate Gopal Roy took a lead, according to EC results.
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PM Narendra Modi is likely to address BJP workers today as the party looks set to retain power in Tripura on its own and with its senior ally Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party in Nagaland.
Modi is likely to be felicitated for the victory at a meeting of senior party leaders at its headquarters in New Delhi, official sources said.
The BJP is leading in 33 out of 60 seats in Tripura, according to the latest Election Commission figures for the polls.
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Tripura CM Manik Saha wins Town Bardowali seat by 1,257 votes
Tripura CM Manik Saha has collected his winning certificate as he wins the election from the Town Bardowali constituency. "I am feeling good and after winning I am getting this certificate so what can be better than this," Saha said.
