Tripura Assembly Elections 2018

The BJP and its allies raced ahead in Nagaland and Tripura as votes were counted today in three northeastern states. In Meghalaya, the BJP's estranged ally Conrad Sangma's NPP is leading but hasn't cross the majority mark yet.

Stakes are high for the BJP ahead of the counting of votes on Thursday for three state assembly polls as results will signal if it has deepened its roots in Tripura, a Left bastion captured by the party in 2018, and made further inroads

Tripura recorded 79.5% voter turnout on Thursday as the state witnessed a three-cornered contest for the 60-member assembly. In 2018, the state recorded 91.4 per cent turnout.

Tripura will vote for a new government in the first Assembly election of this year on February 16. A Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance ended the 25-year rule of the Left Front government in the state in 2018 and now eyes another successive term.

The Left, which ruled the state for 25 years at a stretch before the BJP came to power in 2018, has formed an alliance with the Indian National Congress.

The Tripura BJP has finalised the seat-sharing deal with old ally IPFT for the February 16 assembly election, giving the junior partner in the coalition five constituencies, four less than what it got in the 2018 polls.

Mizoram's newly appointed Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra said Friday Bru voters housed in north Tripura relief camps were likely to exercise their franchise from Kanhmun village on the Mizoram-Tripura border in the upcoming assembly polls.

The protests in Mizoram demanding the removal of chief electoral officer SB Shashank have been called off for now, as the official has left for Delhi after being summoned by the election commission. The NGOs leading the protest say that they will decide their future course of action depending on what happens next.

BJP's Biplab Kumar Deb takes oath as the chief minister of Tripura in the state capital, Agartala. In what was seen as an unusual gesture, senior BJP leader Ram Madhav and the Cheif-Minister elect Biplab Deb visited the CPM party office to invite the former chief minister and CPI(M) leader Manik Sarkar whose 20-year reign in Tripura ended with the ...

The government condemns all kinds of violence but statues of foreign leaders have no place in India, union minister of state for home Hansraj Ahir said today. Mr Ahir's comment comes after a statue of communist icon Lenin was demolished in south Tripura's Belonia by suspected BJP workers

The BJP's victory in the Northeast has changed the perception that only the Congress can survive there, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, back last night in India from a short vacation, assessed the results of assembly elections in the northeast today, accusing the BJP of "usurping" power through a proxy in Meghalaya.

Sunil Deodhar, BJP leader and RSS pracharak considered to be the architect of the BJP's good showing in the Assembly polls in the three northeast states, today said targeting the youth and tribal communities in all the three states helped the party.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday said the excellent performance of the BJP in north-eastern states indicated that it has emerged as an all-India party.

Manik Sarkar, the four-time Chief Minister of Tripura who was edged out of the seat in assembly election results declared on Saturday, told NDTV that the BJP victory had caught him off guard and was "completely unexpected".

The BJP and its allies raced ahead in Nagaland and Tripura as votes were counted today in three northeastern states. In Meghalaya, the BJP's estranged ally Conrad Sangma's NPP is leading but hasn't cross the majority mark yet.

Stakes are high for the BJP ahead of the counting of votes on Thursday for three state assembly polls as results will signal if it has deepened its roots in Tripura, a Left bastion captured by the party in 2018, and made further inroads

Tripura recorded 79.5% voter turnout on Thursday as the state witnessed a three-cornered contest for the 60-member assembly. In 2018, the state recorded 91.4 per cent turnout.

Tripura will vote for a new government in the first Assembly election of this year on February 16. A Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance ended the 25-year rule of the Left Front government in the state in 2018 and now eyes another successive term.

The Left, which ruled the state for 25 years at a stretch before the BJP came to power in 2018, has formed an alliance with the Indian National Congress.

The Tripura BJP has finalised the seat-sharing deal with old ally IPFT for the February 16 assembly election, giving the junior partner in the coalition five constituencies, four less than what it got in the 2018 polls.

Mizoram's newly appointed Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra said Friday Bru voters housed in north Tripura relief camps were likely to exercise their franchise from Kanhmun village on the Mizoram-Tripura border in the upcoming assembly polls.

The protests in Mizoram demanding the removal of chief electoral officer SB Shashank have been called off for now, as the official has left for Delhi after being summoned by the election commission. The NGOs leading the protest say that they will decide their future course of action depending on what happens next.

BJP's Biplab Kumar Deb takes oath as the chief minister of Tripura in the state capital, Agartala. In what was seen as an unusual gesture, senior BJP leader Ram Madhav and the Cheif-Minister elect Biplab Deb visited the CPM party office to invite the former chief minister and CPI(M) leader Manik Sarkar whose 20-year reign in Tripura ended with the ...

The government condemns all kinds of violence but statues of foreign leaders have no place in India, union minister of state for home Hansraj Ahir said today. Mr Ahir's comment comes after a statue of communist icon Lenin was demolished in south Tripura's Belonia by suspected BJP workers

The BJP's victory in the Northeast has changed the perception that only the Congress can survive there, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, back last night in India from a short vacation, assessed the results of assembly elections in the northeast today, accusing the BJP of "usurping" power through a proxy in Meghalaya.

Sunil Deodhar, BJP leader and RSS pracharak considered to be the architect of the BJP's good showing in the Assembly polls in the three northeast states, today said targeting the youth and tribal communities in all the three states helped the party.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday said the excellent performance of the BJP in north-eastern states indicated that it has emerged as an all-India party.

Manik Sarkar, the four-time Chief Minister of Tripura who was edged out of the seat in assembly election results declared on Saturday, told NDTV that the BJP victory had caught him off guard and was "completely unexpected".