The ruling BJP on Sunday swept the civic body elections in Tripura, having won all the seats of the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and clinching several other urban local bodies.
The opposition TMC and CPI(M) failed to open their account in the AMC.
The saffron party secured all the wards in the 15-member Khowai Municipal Council, 17-seat Belonia Municipal Council, 15-member Kumarghat Municipal Council and nine-member Sabroom Nagar Panchayat, state election commission officials said.
The party made a clean sweep in the 25-ward Dharmanagar Municipal Council, 15-seat Teliamura Municipal Council and 13-member Amarpur Nagar Panchayat, they said.
Sonamura Nagar Panchayat and Melaghar Nagar Panchayat became opposition less with the BJP having won all the 13 seats each. It also bagged the 11-member Jirania Nagar Panchayat.
The party secured 12 seats of Ambassa Municipal Council, while the TMC and the CPI-M won one seat each and another went to an independent candidate.
The BJP also won 16 seats of Kailashahar Municipal Council and the CPI(M) got one.
In Panisagar Nagar Panchayat, the BJP emerged victorious in 12 seats, and the CPI (M) bagged one.
The saffron party had fielded candidates for all the 334 seats of Agartala Municipal Corporation, 13 municipal bodies and six Nagar Panchayats in the state where its nominees won in 112 places uncontested. Elections to 222 seats were held on November 25.
Here are the Highlights on Tripura Elections:
The Trinamool, which seems to have left the CPI(M) behind to emerge as the main opposition of the BJP in several wards of Tripura's municipal bodies, said on Sunday that the results are an indicator of the party's prospects in 2023 assembly elections in the north-eastern state, reported news agency ANI.
The BJP, however, stated that the civic poll results exposed the "hollowness" of Trinamool's claims of having made inroads in the northeastern state.
Taking to Twitter, Trinamool's West Bengal general secretary and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh maintained that his party, which forayed into Tripura just about two months ago, has been able to secure the second position in several seats, "despite the violence unleashed by the ruling BJP" there.
TMC has killed democracy in their State. They came to Tripura to create chaos and confusion among the people. So there is no question of them winning any seat in the State: Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on civic election results pic.twitter.com/yOoyZ7t8j0
- ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2021
The BJP is leading or has already won in all the seats where counting has completed, sources have said. This is the first civic election that the BJP contested after coming to power in Tripura in 2018.
Tripura Civic Polls Counting On; Stakes High For BJP, Trinamool: 10 FactsVotes are being counted for elections to several civic bodies including Agartala Municipal Corporation, or AMC, in Tripura today. The elections were held amid fierce political fight between the state's ruling BJP and the Trinamool Congress.
Tripura civic election results | BJP's Tushar Kanti Bhattacharjee & Abhishek Dutta win from Ward number 35 and Ward number 18 of Agartala Municipal Corporation, respectively
- ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2021
Apart from normal security arrangements, Tripura State Rifles and central armed police force have also been deployed to maintain law and order in areas adjoining counting centres, Assistant Inspector General of Police Subrata Chakrabarty said.
Tripura | Counting of votes underway for Agartala Municipal Corporation, Nagar Panchayats elections
- ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2021
BJP leading in Ambassa, Jirania, Teliamura and Sabroom, as per Tripura State Election Commission
Visuals from a counting centre in Agartala pic.twitter.com/PhIgQYRtOP
Three-Tier Security In Place For Tripura Civic Poll Counting3-tier security is in place for counting of votes for over 200 seats in Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and other civic bodies in Tripura, where it was held on Thursday amid court cases, arrests and allegations of attacks by by political parties.
Altogether 81.54 per cent of over 4.93 lakh voters exercised their franchise for elections to Tripura's 14 civic bodies on Thursday amid allegations of political violence by opposition camps. Officials in the State Election Commission (SEC), however, said no clash or voting machine-related problem was reported from the poll-bound areas.
