BJP dominates northeast India, sweeps Tripura polls |
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has virtually decimated the 70 year old hold of Congress and Communist parties in northeast India. It is evident in the latest BJP landslide victory that buried the opposition in the Tripura civic polls on November 28. BJP won 329 of the 334 seats at stake in 13 urban local bodies going to the saffron party in a poll that both Trinamool Congress and CPM termed “murder of democracy”. Mamata Banerjee`s TMC, which got just one seat in Ambassa Municipality, said it had petitioned the Supreme Court with “evidence” of how the November 25 elections were rigged. CPM got three seats while the fledgling Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (Tipra) snatched a rare victory from BJP in Ambassa. While BJP grabbed the lion`s share of votes overall with 59%, TMC emerged as the strongest opposition party in the seats it contested with a 24% vote share. CM Biplab Kumar Deb, without naming TMC, told the media that voters had given “a befitting reply by giving slander support to a party that does not even have a base” in Tripura. TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who led his party`s Tripura campaign, said there was much to look forward to base on its performance on debut.
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