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The BJP is contesting the upcoming elections in the state alone. (folders)
The BJP is contesting the upcoming elections in the state alone. (folders)
The BJP announced its first list of 48 candidates for the Tripura Assembly election on Saturday, featuring Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik of Dhanpur. The party, which is currently in power in the northeastern state, is contesting the upcoming elections only in the state and will run for all 60 seats, the party's state chairman Rajib Bhattacharjee said after his return to the state on Friday night. from New Delhi with other senior leaders.The BJP announced its first list of 48 candidates for the Tripura Assembly election on Saturday, featuring Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik of Dhanpur. The party, which is currently in power in the northeastern state, is contesting the upcoming elections only in the state and will run for all 60 seats, the party's state chairman Rajib Bhattacharjee said after his return to the state on Friday night. from New Delhi with other senior leaders.
Bhattacharjee said the list was finalized after a meeting of the BJP Central Election Committee and the Parliamentary Committee. The BJP candidates are made up of representatives from various committees, including castes, tribes, OBCs, minorities and women, he said.Chief Minister of State Manik Saha was nominated as the BJP candidate from the city of Bordowali. Ms Bhoumik is a union minister in the BJP-led government at the Center. She is an MP for Tripura.
The BJP first came to power in the state in 2018 after defeating the CPI(M), which ruled the state for 25 straight years.
BJP top brass were in talks with TIPRA, a regional party founded by former Congress leader and royal scion Pradyot Deb Barman, for a pre-election alliance, which has now been scrapped.
However, Mr. Bhattacharjee stated that talks were still ongoing with alliance partner IPFT.
On CPI(M) MP Moboshar Ali and former Trinamool State Chairman Subal Bhowmik, who joined the BJP, he said that they saw that the people of the state could not accept the Congress-CPI(M) alliance, and that many others are in contact with the BJP. .
The CPI(M) disputes this time the national elections in alliance with the Congress.
Other leaders who returned from New Delhi on a chartered flight on Friday include Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik, Deputy CM Jishnu Dev Varma, former Chief Minister and Deputy Biplab Kumar Deb, Secretary of organization Phanindranath Sharma and BJP election chairman Tripura accuse Dr. Mahesh Sharma of this.
In the 2018 assembly elections, the BJP, with 43.59% of the vote, won the majority of seats (36) and formed a government with Biplab Kumar Deb as prime minister. The former ruling Left Front alliance, although it won 44.35% of the vote, won only 16 seats.
