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Tripura, Meghalaya And Nagaland Election Results Highlights: BJP Stops Manik Sarkar's 20-Year Run In Tripura, Hung House In Meghalaya, Nagaland
Election result live: Counting of votes is complete in the three north east states - Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura. The BJP under its state chief Biplab Kumar Deb and along with its ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura won 43 seats
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Updated : March 03, 2018 9:44 pm IST
Election result 2018: The BJP has taken Tripura, while it's hung in Meghalaya and Nagaland is uncertain
New Delhi: Counting of votes is complete in the three north east states - Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura. The BJP under its state chief Biplab Kumar Deb and along with its ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura won 43 seats. CPI(M) leader and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who has been in power for 20 years, has reached the end, with the party getting 16 seats. In Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio's Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, which has partnered with the BJP, won a total of 29 seats. The Naga People's Front of TR Zeliang and its allies also got 29 seats. In Meghalaya, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has won in both the constituencies from where he fought the assembly election. But the results appear to headed for a hung house.
Mar 03, 2018 21:34 (IST)
Amit Shah's desire of BJP forming government in Odisha will never be fulfilled: BJD
BJD leaders have ridiculed BJP president Amit Shah's statement and claimed that the party's "dream" of forming the government Odisha will never be fulfilled even though it has won in Tripura and other northeastern states. "Only Naveen Patnaik is popular in Odisha. Nobody knows Amit Shah in Odisha. The BJP is passing through a silver period but it will not reach its golden era. His ( Mr Shah) desire of BJP forming government in Odisha will never be fulfilled," Odisha's Panchayati Raj Minister Pradeep Maharathy told reporters. Mr Shah earlier in the day said that BJP's golden period will start when it forms government in Odisha, West Bengal and Kerala.
Mar 03, 2018 21:26 (IST)
CPM's Brinda Karat on Tripura election result
- It's true there were so many malfunctioning EVMs in Tripura that it is quite unprecedented. In Manik Sarkar's constituencies there is an ongoing incident.
- The Election Commission itself has admitted there are many malfunctioning machines.
- We do not attribute our performance to EVMs. But we do talk about unprecedented deployment of money by BJP and RSS. This is encounter politics in the parliamentary sphere.
Mar 03, 2018 21:16 (IST)
Speaking at NDTV's special election analysis, CPM's politburo member MA Baby says, "Congress will have to introspect about anti-people economic policy."
Mar 03, 2018 21:13 (IST)
Mar 03, 2018 21:07 (IST)
It's a setback for the Left: CPM's Brinda Karat
"It is a setback for the Left. There is absolutely no getting away from that. However, Left has got 45% of the vote so we have got a substantial support in Tripura": Brinda Karat on Tripura election results.
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Mar 03, 2018 21:02 (IST)
Addressing a press conference, BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma said, "We have got only two seats in Meghalaya. The main largest party is NPP. We want the NPP to talk to people and form a non-Congress government. They have to take the lead and we will support them."
Mar 03, 2018 20:55 (IST)
Nitin Gadkari and Jual Oram will be going as observers to Tripura, says union minister JP Nadda. He also says that he along with Arun Singh will go be heading to Nagaland, while Kiren Rijiju and KJ Alphons will be going to Meghalaya for government formation.
Mar 03, 2018 20:52 (IST)
After Tripura Victory, BJP Now On Mission Bengal
Following the BJP's historic win in the Tripura assembly elections, the party's West Bengal unit on Saturday said this will surely impact state politics and predicted a "sea change" in Bengal's political scenario in six months. "It is the people who have brought about the change in Tripura. They will bring about the change in Bengal too. We are trying to build our party organisation here as per their hopes and aspirations. We have full support from our national leadership. I think there will be a sea change in Bengal within six months," state BJP president Dilip Ghosh said.
Mar 03, 2018 20:48 (IST)
Reacting to PM Modi's comments, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said, "I don't remember complaining to him against the Congress high command. Did the high command go and complain to him against me?"
"One really fails to understand what prompted Mr. Modi's ill-conceived and unfounded remark," he added.
"And I am personally set to take this battle to the finish Mr Modi," the Punjab chief minister said.
In his victory speech this evening, PM Modi had said the Congress high command doesn't consider Amarinder Singh as one of their own. He said: "In Punjab, the Congress does not even consider their CM as their own. He marches on, like an independent solider."
Mar 03, 2018 20:41 (IST)
Swaraj India's chief Yogendra Yadav on election results: "What happened in Tripura wasn't usual or ordinary. It was historic. It was due to the anti-incumbency of the Left, the BJP's will to power and the Congress's complete ineptitude."
Mar 03, 2018 20:38 (IST)
Nagaland's top election official has said that there are problems with votes in two seats. They are going to hold a press conference soon, reports NDTV's Monideepa Banerjie from Kohima.
Mar 03, 2018 20:26 (IST)
Knew we were going to breach the 40-plus seat barrier: Babul Supriyo
- I have seen such immense enthusiasm in the streets of Tripura. I knew we were going to breach the 40-plus seat barrier
- I'm quite confident that West Bengal BJP will be more advanced than this. They will beat Mamata. We will even see an alliance of Congress, Left and Mamata to stop BJP but they won't be able to.
Mar 03, 2018 20:23 (IST)
Speaking on the BJP's strategy for Tripura, he said: "we formed 60 Mandal committees, then seven morchas in the party. After that we have Shakti Kendra - a group of five booths. Then came booth committee. In the last one year, we reached a stage where we had in charges for each page of these voter lists. Each page had 60 voters".
Mar 03, 2018 20:21 (IST)
People of Tripura were seeking change right from 1998 but the nature of elections and muscle power of CPM - the rigging that took place all these years (prevented that), BJP's Tripura in-charge Sunil Deodhar said.
Mar 03, 2018 18:59 (IST)
"I had said during campaigning too, all this love you give to the BJP, we will return it with interest."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Mar 03, 2018 18:49 (IST)
"I have heard from people who believe in Vastu Shastra that the north east corner of a house is a very important place. Today, I'm very happy that this country's north east has come ahead to lead the country's development."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Mar 03, 2018 18:46 (IST)
Mar 03, 2018 18:39 (IST)
"Yesterday, the country was bathed in all the colours of Holi. But today, all the colours are saffron."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Mar 03, 2018 18:29 (IST)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pauses victory speech for azaan.
Mar 03, 2018 18:20 (IST)
"Today is historic for two reasons. The BJP is celebrating its first victory in the new headquarters. And second, the rath under Modi-ji's leadership, after winning in the north east, is going toward Karnataka."
Amit Shah
Amit Shah
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