Tripura Elections 2023 Voting HIGHLIGHTS: Polling Percent Across State Stands At 81% Till 4PM
Tripura Elections 2023 Voting HIGHLIGHTS: In the 2018 Assembly election, BJP, which never won a seat in Tripura, ended the 27-year rule of CPI(M) and formed the government by bagging 36 seats.
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Tripura Elections 2023 Voting HIGHLIGHTS: The BJP will hope to win Tripura for the second consecutive time as the northeastern state votes on Thursday even though it faces a stiff challenge from the CPI(M)-Congress combine and new entrant Tipra Motha, headed by former royal family's scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma. Votes will be counted on March 2.
In the 2018 Assembly election, BJP, which never won a seat in Tripura, ended the 27-year rule of CPI(M) and formed the government by bagging 36 seats in the 60-member Assembly. While BJP received just 1.54 per cent of votes in 2013, the vote share jumped to over 43 per cent in 2018 -- a result credited mainly to the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Over 28 lakh voters, including 13.53 lakh women, will decide the fate of 259 aspirants. Tribal voters are the deciding factor in one-third seats (20) of the assembly. In 2018, BJP had won 10 of these 20 seats.
The BJP is contesting in 55 seats, while its ally IPFT has fielded candidates in six constituencies. The CPI(M), which secured 42 per cent of the popular vote in 2018, is contesting in 47 seats while Congress is fighting in 13 constituencies. The Trinamool Congress has fielded nominees in 28 constituencies.
Top candidates fighting the elections are Chief Minister Manik Saha, BJP's nominee from the Town Bardowali constituency, Union minister Pratima Bhowmik, who is contesting from Dhanpur, and CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chadudhury, who has been fielded from the Sabroom seat. Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Deb Varma, another member of the erstwhile royal family, is the BJP candidate from the Charilam.
In its manifesto, BJP has promised cooked food at Rs 5, bond of Rs 50,000 to each EWS family on birth of a girl child, two free LPG cylinders to the beneficiaries of PM Ujjwala Yojana, land pattas to all eligible landless citizens and a financial assistance of Rs 3,000 per year to landless farmers. The party has also promised more autonomy to the tribal areas.
The Left Front and the Congress, during its campaigns, stressed on "misrule and misgovernance" of the BJP-IPFT government and accused it of "tearing the secular fabric of Tripura" by citing communal incidents.
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