TIPRA was created by former Congress chief and Tripura royal Pradyot Manikya Deb Burman (File)
Agartala:
The BJP on Saturday suffered an enormous defeat in tribal council polls in Tripura, the place the occasion guidelines in alliance with the IPFT (Indigenous Peoples Entrance of Tripura).
The essential Tripura Autonomous District Council polls have been swept by a brand new outfit – TIPRA (The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance) – that received 18 of 28 seats. The BJP and its ally received simply 9, with the opposite seat going to an impartial candidate. The Left Entrance, which received the sooner election, and the Congress did not win any seats.
TIPRA is headed by Tripura royal Pradyot Manikya Deb Burman, who resigned as chief of the Congress’ state unit in September over variations with occasion’s dealing with of the citizenship regulation protests.
The council consists of 30 seats, of which 28 are elected and two nominated by the Governor. These 30 seats are unfold throughout 20 Meeting segments. Within the final Autonomous District Council election, held in Could 2015, the CPIM-led Left Entrance swept the desk, profitable 25 seats.
Within the 2018 Meeting election the BJP-IPFT pair fought again to win 18 of the 20 constituencies that maintain the tribal council seats. Three years later, although, they’re set for an embarrassing turnaround.
The election was held on April 6.
On Friday a bunch of unidentified males allegedly attacked TIPRA leaders and candidates as they visited the workplace of the Sub-Divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) of Mohanpur.
The SDM’s workplace is one in every of 16 centres the place votes are being counted.
“There might be an altercation between TIPRA supporters and a few folks when he (Mr Deb Burman) visited the SDM’s workplace…. we’ve not seen (if) he was attacked. He reached house (Agartala) safely,” Manik Lal Das, Superintendent of Police (West Tripura), advised information company PTI.
Mr Deb Burman, who’s a kind of contesting this election, mentioned he went to the SDM’s workplace with a candidate to debate the counting course of when violence broke out. He advised PTI police personnel current have been outnumbered by the attackers.
He additionally mentioned Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and the state’s DGP (Director Common of Police) had assured him of motion towards the culprits.
Nonetheless, Schooling Minister Ratan Lal Nath later claimed the incident was the results of TIPRA supporters attempting to create issues on the SDM’s workplace.
The Autonomous District Council covers round two-thirds of the state’s territory, and the tribal individuals who reside and vote from listed here are a robust political power in Tripura – in addition to a barometer of political events’ fortunes. They represent round a 3rd of the state’s 40 lakh inhabitants.
With enter from PTI
