Tripura Election Results 2023: BJP-IPFT Alliance Wins, PM Modi Lauds Victory

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• Mar 2, 2023 | Dhupali Das

Tripura Election Results 2023: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, who was appointed to lead the state in 2022 after Biplab Deb resigned, won from his...

Digital Desk: The Bharatiya Janata Party has won the Tripura assembly elections for the second time, taking 32 seats in the 60-member assembly on its own.

The BJP-Indigenous People's Front of Tripura alliance, which had wrested the left fortress in 2018, extended its winning streak in the north-eastern state, defeating newcomer Tipra Motha and an aggressive Trinamool Congress.

According to the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Left-Congress alliance got 14 seats, while the Tipra Motha won 13 in its electoral debut.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Thank you Tripura! This is a vote for progress and stability. @BJP4Tripura will continue to boost the state's growth trajectory. I am proud of all Tripura BJP Karyakartas for their spectacular efforts at the grassroots".

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, who was appointed to lead the state in 2022 after Biplab Deb resigned, won from his Town Bardowali constituency.

"On behalf of the karyakartas of @BJP4Tripura , I heartily congratulate & express my gratitude to our dynamic PM Shri @narendramodi Ji, Hon'ble HM Shri @AmitShah Ji & our National President Shri @JPNadda ji for their relentless contribution behind this resounding victory", Saha tweeted following his victory.

Despite critics predicted a "difficult time" for him in the prestigious constituency, Saha, a Congress leader who joined the saffron party half a dozen years ago, defeated his former party's veteran leader Ashish Kumar Saha by a margin of 1,257 votes.

In addition to winning in Tripura, the saffron party is anticipated to collaborate with its alliance, the NDPP, to establish the government in Nagaland. The Meghalaya election results produced a hung assembly, with Conrad Sangma's National People's Party emerging as the single largest party.

The electoral victory will provide a significant boost to the saffron party as it prepares to contest elections in Karnataka and, later in three states in the Hindi heartland: Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan.