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  • Triangular contest anticipated in Tripura elections: This is all you wish to have to understand

    Via Specific Information Carrier

    GUWAHATI: BJP-ruled Tripura will pass to polls on Thursday amid the belief of a fractured mandate.

    The state has 60 seats – 20 of them reserved for ST and 10 for SC communities. 

    The BJP, which persevered with its alliance with the Indigenous Other folks’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), will contest 55 seats and the latter in 5.

    The Left events and Congress struck a seat-sharing deal to prevent the BJP juggernaut. The Left will contest 47 seats – 43 of them via the CPM – and the Congress in the rest 13.

    The tribal outfit TIPRA Motha will contest 42 seats and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) 28 seats.

    A triangular contest is anticipated in 42 seats amongst BJP, TIPRA Motha and both Left or Congress. 

    The BJP swept the 2018 elections and ended the 25-year-long Left rule via using at the slogan of “Chalo Paltai” (let’s trade). Alternatively, former Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb’s alleged autocratic taste of functioning noticed the BJP disintegrating slowly. Deb got rid of Sudip Roy Barman from the ministry and later, Barman and some other MLA ditched the celebration.

    ALSO READ | Tripura polls: Manik Sarkar, the veteran CPI(M) hopes will trade its fortunes

    There used to be a length when Tripura used to be within the information for Deb’s extraordinary statements, together with offensive remarks in opposition to sure communities, than anything. Sensing hassle forward, the BJP’s central management sought to make amends via changing Deb with Manik Saha in Might ultimate yr but it surely used to be too past due. This used to be glaring from the resignations of 4 extra BJP MLAs.

    Actually, MLAs of the IPFT additionally misplaced hope within the ruling coalition. 3 IPFT legislators surrender the celebration and joined different events.

    In 2018, the BJP had to triumph over the Left. This election, it faces a two-pronged problem from the Congress-Left mix and the TIPRA Motha.

    The Congress and the CPM had been foes for many years in Tripura however the two buried the hatched to prevent the BJP’s run. The CPM specifically nonetheless has a cast make stronger base within the state.

    ALSO READ | ‘Kushti’ in Kerala, ‘dosti’ in Tripura: PM Modi assaults Cong-CPI(M) alliance

    The TIPRA Motha, which regulations the Tripura Tribal Spaces Self sufficient District Council, holds sway within the 20 ST seats. Led via royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, it’s anticipated to emerge because the kingmaker. The celebration is contesting 42 seats, together with 22 generally spaces, because it makes an attempt to emerge as a pan-Tripura celebration. 

    The overall belief is that neither the Congress-Left mix nor the BJP can shape the federal government with out the TIPRA Motha’s make stronger. Assets within the BJP claimed Debbarma can also be “controlled” however he has saved his playing cards with regards to his chest. He’s going to the polls via renewing the tribals’ separate native land call for. His alliance talks with the BJP failed because the Centre refused to make any dedication to the statehood call for.

    At a BJP rally in Tripura ultimate week, Union house minister Amit Shah claimed TIPRA Motha has a tacit working out with the Congress-Left alliance. In a similar way, the Congress sniffed that the BJP has a secret working out with the TMC. The suspicion stemmed from the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration contesting 28 seats in spite of now not having a visual make stronger base. 

    The BJP is assured that it’s going to go back to energy via cashing in at the department of Opposition votes. 

    Factbox:

    General seats 60
    2018 effects – BJP 36, IPFT 8, CPM 16
    2023 polls: 259 applicants, together with 31 girls (BJP 55, CPM 43, TIPRA Motha 42, TMC 28, Congress 13, Independents 58)
    31,000 polling staff, 3,327 polling stations in 2,504 places
    28.14 lakh citizens together with 13.99 lakh girls 
    30,000 CAPF staff, 15,000 state forces’ staff deployed for polls

    Key applicants

    BJP – Leader Minister Manik Saha, Deputy Leader Minister Jishnu Dev Varma, Union minister Pratima Bhoumik 
    CPM – Jitendra Choudhury, Pabitra Kar 
    Congress – Sudip Roy Barman, Birajit Sinha, Ashish Kumar Saha
    TIPRA Motha – Subodh Debbarma, Brishaketu Debbarma
    IPFT – Prem Kumar Reang

     

    GUWAHATI: BJP-ruled Tripura will pass to polls on Thursday amid the belief of a fractured mandate.

    The state has 60 seats – 20 of them reserved for ST and 10 for SC communities. 

    The BJP, which persevered with its alliance with the Indigenous Other folks’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), will contest 55 seats and the latter in 5.

    The Left events and Congress struck a seat-sharing deal to prevent the BJP juggernaut. The Left will contest 47 seats – 43 of them via the CPM – and the Congress in the rest 13.

    The tribal outfit TIPRA Motha will contest 42 seats and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) 28 seats.

    A triangular contest is anticipated in 42 seats amongst BJP, TIPRA Motha and both Left or Congress. 

    The BJP swept the 2018 elections and ended the 25-year-long Left rule via using at the slogan of “Chalo Paltai” (let’s trade). Alternatively, former Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb’s alleged autocratic taste of functioning noticed the BJP disintegrating slowly. Deb got rid of Sudip Roy Barman from the ministry and later, Barman and some other MLA ditched the celebration.

    ALSO READ | Tripura polls: Manik Sarkar, the veteran CPI(M) hopes will trade its fortunes

    There used to be a length when Tripura used to be within the information for Deb’s extraordinary statements, together with offensive remarks in opposition to sure communities, than anything. Sensing hassle forward, the BJP’s central management sought to make amends via changing Deb with Manik Saha in Might ultimate yr but it surely used to be too past due. This used to be glaring from the resignations of 4 extra BJP MLAs.

    Actually, MLAs of the IPFT additionally misplaced hope within the ruling coalition. 3 IPFT legislators surrender the celebration and joined different events.

    In 2018, the BJP had to triumph over the Left. This election, it faces a two-pronged problem from the Congress-Left mix and the TIPRA Motha.

    The Congress and the CPM had been foes for many years in Tripura however the two buried the hatched to prevent the BJP’s run. The CPM specifically nonetheless has a cast make stronger base within the state.

    ALSO READ | ‘Kushti’ in Kerala, ‘dosti’ in Tripura: PM Modi assaults Cong-CPI(M) alliance

    The TIPRA Motha, which regulations the Tripura Tribal Spaces Self sufficient District Council, holds sway within the 20 ST seats. Led via royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, it’s anticipated to emerge because the kingmaker. The celebration is contesting 42 seats, together with 22 generally spaces, because it makes an attempt to emerge as a pan-Tripura celebration. 

    The overall belief is that neither the Congress-Left mix nor the BJP can shape the federal government with out the TIPRA Motha’s make stronger. Assets within the BJP claimed Debbarma can also be “controlled” however he has saved his playing cards with regards to his chest. He’s going to the polls via renewing the tribals’ separate native land call for. His alliance talks with the BJP failed because the Centre refused to make any dedication to the statehood call for.

    At a BJP rally in Tripura ultimate week, Union house minister Amit Shah claimed TIPRA Motha has a tacit working out with the Congress-Left alliance. In a similar way, the Congress sniffed that the BJP has a secret working out with the TMC. The suspicion stemmed from the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration contesting 28 seats in spite of now not having a visual make stronger base. 

    The BJP is assured that it’s going to go back to energy via cashing in at the department of Opposition votes. 

    Factbox:

    General seats 60
    2018 effects – BJP 36, IPFT 8, CPM 16
    2023 polls: 259 applicants, together with 31 girls (BJP 55, CPM 43, TIPRA Motha 42, TMC 28, Congress 13, Independents 58)
    31,000 polling staff, 3,327 polling stations in 2,504 places
    28.14 lakh citizens together with 13.99 lakh girls 
    30,000 CAPF staff, 15,000 state forces’ staff deployed for polls
    Key applicants

    BJP – Leader Minister Manik Saha, Deputy Leader Minister Jishnu Dev Varma, Union minister Pratima Bhoumik 
    CPM – Jitendra Choudhury, Pabitra Kar 
    Congress – Sudip Roy Barman, Birajit Sinha, Ashish Kumar Saha
    TIPRA Motha – Subodh Debbarma, Brishaketu Debbarma
    IPFT – Prem Kumar Reang

     

  • Congress has a mountain to climb forward of elections in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura

    Categorical Information Provider

    GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.

    Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.

    As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.

    COLUMN | The King’s Speech: Why the BJP might in finding it tricky to go back to energy in Tripura

    The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.

    Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.

    The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government. 

    In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.

    Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.

    ALSO READ | 4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections

    In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.

    The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left. 

    The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.

    The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.

    Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper.  “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.

    The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.

    READ HERE | ‘Trinamool no longer a Bengali celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya

    GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.

    Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.

    As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.

    COLUMN | The King’s Speech: Why the BJP might in finding it tricky to go back to energy in Tripura

    The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.

    Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.

    The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government. 

    In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.

    Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.

    ALSO READ | 4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections

    In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.

    The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left. 

    The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.

    The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.

    Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper.  “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.

    The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.

    READ HERE | ‘Trinamool no longer a Bengali celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya

  • TMC names Bengal Minister Manas Bhunia as its Meghalaya in-charge, any other senior chief to seem after Tripura unit

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The TMC, which is attempting to cement its base within the northeast, on Monday tasked 3 of its senior leaders with the duty of managing the birthday celebration’s affairs in two states.

    In a observation, the birthday celebration stated that MLA and senior cupboard minister Manas Bhunia has been appointed because the in-charge of its Meghalaya unit with quick impact.

    TMC-controlled Bidhannagar Municipal Company chairman Sabyasachi Dutta used to be named the co-in fee of the Meghalaya unit.

    Dutta, who had converted to the BJP from the TMC in 2019, rejoined the Mamata Banerjee-led camp after the 2021 meeting elections.

    Any other state-level chief and previous minister Rajib Banerjee, who had unsuccessfully contested the closing meeting polls on a BJP price tag and returned to the TMC after the birthday celebration’s thumping victory, has been named because the state in-charge of TMC Tripura unit, the observation added.

    In an enormous jolt to the opposition Congress in Meghalaya, 12 of its 17 MLAs, led by way of former leader minister Mukul Sangma, joined the TMC closing November.

    The birthday celebration had additionally been seeking to achieve foothold in Goa, the place elections have been held closing month, and the effects could be introduced on March 10.

    A number of senior Congress leaders, together with former leader minister Luizinho Faleiro, joined the TMC within the western state forward of the meeting polls there.