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BJP, allies return in Tripura, Nagaland; Sangma to repeat govt in Meghalaya

BJP and NPP were partners in the outgoing government but had contested the polls separately

BJP to keep working for peace, development in Tripura, says Manik Saha

Claiming that BJP's performance in Tripura was on expected lines, Chief Minister Manik Saha, who won the elections from Town Bardowali Assembly constituency, said the saffron party-led government will continue to work for the state's development across all sectors. Expressing his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda and other central leaders, who had extensively campaigned for the party's candidates, the chief minister said the state, "for the first time", witnessed a triangular fight. "BJP's victory was expected We were eagerly waiting for it. Our responsibility has increased now. We will walk in the direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows us. "In Tripura, elections so far was a direct fight between two parties. This is for the first time, a triangular fight was witnessed in the state," he told reporters. Stressing that the BJP would seek to maintain peace and tranquility in the state, Saha said the party had ...

Disappointing: Cong on Assembly election results in 3 northeastern states

The Congress on Thursday said the assembly election results in the northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya were "disappointing" for it, but touted its victory in three assembly bypolls in as many states as "encouraging". Congress general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh said the party would soon assess the assembly poll results and take corrective measures to strengthen the organisation. "Our performance will be strong five years later," he said, pointing to the fact that the party fielded youth candidates in the northeastern states this time with an eye on the future. The party won just five of the all 60 seats it contested in Maghalaya and failed to open its account in Nagaland where it fielded candidates in 23 out of 60 seats. In Tripura where the Congress contested the election in alliance with the Left parties, it contested in 13 seats and bagged just three seats out of a total of 60. The BJP and its alliance partners returned to power in Tripura and ...

Vote for progress and stability, says PM Modi on BJP win in Tripura

Prime Minister Narednra Modi on Thursday said the BJP's win in Tripura is a vote for progress and stability and asserted that the party's government in the state will continue to boost its growth trajectory. Thanking people of the state, he added, "I am proud of all Tripura BJP karyakartas for their spectacular efforts at the grassroots." With the NDPP-BJP alliance set to retain power in Nagaland, Modi thanked people for giving the alliance another mandate to serve the state. He tweeted, "The double engine government will keep working for the state's progress. I laud our party workers for their hardwork which ensured this result." In his tweet on the Meghalaya polls, he said, "Grateful to all those who have supported the BJP in the assembly polls." "We will keep working hard to enhance the development trajectory of Meghalaya and focus on empowering the people of the state. I am also thankful to our party workers for the effort they put," the prime minister said.

BJP-IPFT gets majority in 60-member assembly, returns to power in Tripura

The BJP-IPFT alliance won 31 seats in the 60-member Tripura assembly, securing its return to power in the northeastern state for the second time in a row. According to the Election Commission website, the BJP bagged 30 seats while the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) got one. The saffron party is leading in two more seats as results of 57 seats were declared on Thursday. The BJP's victory was expected We were eagerly waiting for it. Our responsibility has been increased with the decisive mandate, outgoing Chief Minister Manik Saha, who won from Town Bardowali defeating his nearest Congress rival Ashish Kumar Saha by 1,257 votes.

Ready to accept all demands of Tipra Motha, except Greater Tipraland: BJP

The BJP on Thursday said it was ready to accept all demands of Tipra Motha, except for Greater Tipraland, if the new party led by former royal Pradyot Debbarma extends its support. Speaking to PTI, state BJP chief spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said his party was marching to form the next government in the state. "We are forming the next government in the state as we have been saying since the beginning. Two central leaders -- Phanindranath Sarma and Sambit Patra -- are here to oversee the situation, and hopefully, more central leaders will be arriving today," he said. On the possibility of taking the support of the Debbarma-led party, he said, "Except Greater Tipraland, the BJP is ready to accept all their demands." The BJP was leading in 33 seats in the 60-member House, while its partner IPFT was ahead in one seat. The Tipra Motha, which seemed to have grabbed the IPFT's tribal support, was leading in 11 seats. The opposition Left-Congress alliance was ahead in 15 seats. Amon

Counting of votes in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland begins amid security

Poll officials said that prohibitory orders have been promulgated in and around all counting centres as a precautionary measure

Votes set to be counted in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland today

The BJP, which has replaced Congress as the dominant party in the northeast, is optimistic of its prospects in the three states

No hung assembly, NDA will form govt in all three NE states: Himanta

Asserting there will not be hung assembly in either Tripura, Nagaland or Meghalaya, as predicted in some exit polls, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the NDA will form the government with an absolute majority in all the three northeastern states. Sarma, the NEDA convenor, said no NDA (National Democratic Alliance) partner will go into any alliance with either Congress or the Trinamool Congress. "There will be no hung assembly. The NDA will form the government in all the three states," he told reporters here. When asked about candidates for the chief minister's post in the three states, he said there will be a status quo in Tripura and Nagaland. "Tripura will have a BJP CM, while we are in a coalition government in Nagaland," the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor said. For Meghalaya, the CM will be decided after considering the number of states won by the BJP. Elections were held in Tripura on February 16, and in Nagaland and Meghalaya on Febru

All sides hopeful of victory amid varied results in exit polls in Tripura

The crucial but tiny state of Tripura, which the BJP had grabbed from the CPI(M) in a surprise win in 2018, had exit results from three pollsters which varied substantially. IndiaToday-MyAxis indicated that the BJP would get between 36-45 seats in the 60-member assembly by garnering 45 per cent of the popular vote, most of it in the plains where Bengalis live, giving it a spectacular win. It also predicted the Left-Congress combine would get a paltry 6-11 seats with just 32 per cent of the popular vote, a huge slide from its 43 per cent vote share in 2018. The newbie party Tipra Motha, founded by former royal Pradyot Kishore Mankiya Debbarma, is shown as gathering 9-16 seats from the tribal areas with a concentrated 20 per cent of the vote share. However, the ETG-Times Now poll indicated that BJP would remain the largest party but with a substantial drawdown from its earlier tally of 36 to just 24 seats, while Left-Congress would get 21 seats with Tipra Motha snatching 14 seats in t

Security tightened in Tripura ahead of vote counting, says Official

Adequate security arrangements have been made to ensure that the vote counting process on March 2 was peaceful, with Director General of Police (DGP) Amitabh Ranjan keeping a close watch on the preparations, a senior officer said. Top officials, including the chief secretary, DGP and the chief electoral officer (CEO), have visited all districts and held meetings with police chiefs, issuing instructions to them to take stock of the situation in their respective areas, he said. Across the state, patrolling has been intensified, nakas set up, and personnel of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), state police and Tripura State Rifles (TSR) deployed to prevent any untoward situation. The CAPF is carrying out flag marches regularly in the state, especially in the border areas, in coordination with the BSF. A special drive to randomly check hotels and cars is underway, the police officer said. All political parties have been requested to maintain peace and harmony during and after the coun

Political parties must ensure peace during counting of votes: Tripura CEO

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Tripura, Gitte Kirankumar Dinakarrao, on Monday appealed to political parties and people for ensuring peace during and after the counting of votes for the state assembly elections. Counting for the February 16 Assembly elections will be held on March 2. The CEO was addressing a booth-level peace meeting in Sepahijala district's Kamalsagar Assembly constituency. We have arranged elaborate security during the counting process to make it free, fair, transparent and peaceful, he said. The poll panel during its visit to the state on January 12 had promised that the assembly elections would be free, fair, and peaceful. The Election Commission has set a programme- 'zero poll violence' - during the election and post-election period and so far it has been done with the cooperation from the people as well as political parties. Booths are the places where the possibility of violence cannot be ruled out and this is the reason the Election Commission is holding

Election Commission to hold peace meetings in Tripura ahead of poll results

The Chief Election Officer, Kiran Gitte told ANI that they had meetings with all political parties in this regard

Tripura polls: EVMs, Ballot Boxes kept under strict security arrangements

The Assembly elections for the state of Tripura were held on February 16, which saw over 81 per cent voter turnout, informed the Election Commission

16 post poll incidents of violence reported in 48 hours in Tripura

A substantial number of CAPF is still in different parts of Tripura who would remain in the state till the counting of votes on March 2 to prevent any kind of post poll violence: CEO

Tripura records nearly 88% voter turnout in Feb 16 Assembly polls

Nearly 88 per cent of voting was recorded in the one-day Tripura assembly elections, which were largely peaceful, a senior EC official said on Friday. The elections to the 60-member assembly were held across the northeastern state on Thursday. An average of 87.63 per cent polling was recorded in the assembly elections, which went till 8.30 or 9 pm on Thursday. The figure excluded the number of polled postal ballots, Additional CEO Subhasish Bandhopadhyay told PTI. Of the total 28.14 lakh voters, over 24.66 lakhs have exercised their franchise, he said. Tripura had, in the 2018 assembly elections, recorded 89.38 per cent voting, while the highest poll percentage was 93 in 2013. Notably, the Town Bardowali assembly constituency, where Chief Minister Manik Saha is pitted against Congress nominee Asish Kumar Saha, witnessed the lowest voter turnout at 80 per cent, while the Manu assembly seat in South Tripura recorded the highest polling percentage at 92.09, the official said. Over 9

Tata Steel completes first multi-modal shipment of TMT bars to Tripura

Tata Steel successfully completed the first multi-modal shipment of 960 tonnes of TMT bars from West Bengal's Haldia Port to Tripura's Agartala, the company said on Thursday. The entire transportation from flag-off to receiving material at the distributor's warehouse in Agartala was completed in 17 days, it said. "The possibility of using this route to service additional, smaller-lot regions along the river is also worth exploring. The Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route is more economical as well as environmentally more responsible, Tata Steel Chief Group Shipping, Ranjan Sinha, said in a statement. Earlier in 2022, the company had successfully shipped 1,800 tonnes of finished steel products from Haldia Port in West Bengal to Pandu Port in Assam using the IBP route via the Brahmaputra river, it added.

Tripura polls: CEO issues notice to state Cong, BJP over appeal for vote

The appeals were tweeted from their respective official handles after the imposition of the Model Code of Conduct

Final polling percentage in Tripura assembly polls will be around 92%: CEO

Voter turnout was 91.82 per cent and 89.38 per cent in 2013 and 2018 Assembly elections, respectively

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