2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Country:India
Type:Legislative
Ongoing:No
Majority Seats:31
Seats For Election:60 seats in the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Turnout:89.95% (1.43 pp)[1]
Previous Year:2018
Previous Election:2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Election Date:16 February 2023
Next Election:Next Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Next Year:Next
Opinion Polls:2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election#Survey & Polls
Outgoing Members:12th Tripura Assembly#Members
Elected Members:13th Tripura Assembly#Members of Legislative Assembly
Leader1:Manik Saha
Party1:Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance1:National Democratic Alliance
Leader Since1:2022
Leaders Seat1:Town Bordowali
Last Election1:43.59%, 36 seats
Seats1:32
Seat Change1: 4
Popular Vote1:985,797
Percentage1:38.97%
Swing1: 4.62 pp
Leader4:Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma
Party4:TMP
Leader Since4:2019
Leaders Seat4:Did not contest
Last Election4:Did not exist
Seats4:13
Seat Change4:New
Popular Vote4:498,182
Percentage4:19.7%
Swing4:New
Leader2:Manik Sarkar
Party2:Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Alliance2:SDF
Leader Since2:1998
Leaders Seat2:Did not contest
Last Election2:42.22%, 16 seats
Seats2:11
Seat Change2: 5
Popular Vote2:622,869
Percentage2:24.62%
Swing2: 17.6 pp
Leader5:Sudip Roy Barman
Party5:Indian National Congress
Alliance5:SDF
Leader Since5:2022
Leaders Seat5:Agartala
Last Election5:1.79%, 0 seat
Seats5:3
Seat Change5: 3
Popular Vote5:216,637
Percentage5:8.56%
Swing5: 6.77 pp
Map2 Image:Tripura Legislative Assembly Election Results 2023.svg
Map2 Caption:Structure of the Tripura Legislative Assembly after the election
Map2 Size:300px
Chief Minister
Before Election:Manik Saha
Before Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Posttitle:Chief Minister after election
After Election:Manik Saha
After Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Last Update:24 Nov 2023

2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly elections were held on 16 February 2023 to elect all 60 members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 2 March 2023.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a simple majority, defeating its rivals Secular Democratic Forces and the Tipra Motha Party.[2] Tipra Motha Party won 13 seats at its debut and became the largest opposition party in Tripura.[3]

Background

The tenure of 12th Tripura Assembly is scheduled to end on 22 March 2023.[4] The previous assembly elections were held in February 2018. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the Chief Minister.[5]

Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from Chief Minister post on 14 May 2022[6] and he was succeeded by Manik Saha as the new chief minister.[7]

TTAADC elections

Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council elections were held in April 2021, in which a new Tripuri outfit, the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance, formed by a scion of the erstwhile royal family of Tripura, Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma, won an astounding victory, drubbing both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), with the TIPRA and its ally the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra winning a total of 18 out of the 28 elected council seats. The BJP was restricted to 9 seats and the CPI(M) was completely washed out, unable to win any seats, losing their supermajority of 100% seats in the council.[8]

Major political defections

In 2022, 8 National Democratic Alliance (5 Bharatiya Janata Party and 3 Indigenous People's Front of Tripura) MLAs resigned and left the BJP, out of which 4 joined TIPRA, 3 joined the Indian National Congress, and 1 joined the Trinamool Congress (albeit later resigned from the party).[9] There have been defections in the TTAADC where BJP MDC leader Hangsha Kumar Tripura joined TIPRA.[10] [11]

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 18 January 2023.[12]

Poll EventSchedule
Notification Date21 January 2023
Last Date for filing nomination30 January 2023
Scrutiny of nomination31 January 2023
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination2 February 2023
Date of Poll16 February 2023
Date of Counting of Votes2 March 2023
Date of Oath taking8 March 2023
1st Cabinet Meeting 9 March 2023

Parties and Alliances

Reports emerged in late January in which the Tipra Motha Party was in talks for a possible alliance with the BJP and IPFT. During this time the Tipra Motha Party and the IPFT held talks for a possible merger. However last minute reports later stated that BJP talks with TMP fell off while BJP announced to continue alliance with IPFT, BJP announced that the party was still against IPFT's demand for Tipraland and that the party would be allotted 6 seats as per the alliance agreement.[13] [14] [15]

Party[16] !Flag!Symbol!Leader!Seats contested[17] [18]
Bharatiya Janata PartyManik Saha55
Indigenous People's Front of TripuraPrem Kumar Reang6
Total61

Secular Democratic Forces

In early January reports emerged that the Congress and CPI(M) had begun talks of a possible alliance between the parties to unitedly defeat the incumbent government (NDA). Congress and CPI(M) had initially held talks with the Tipra Motha Party however both parties later backed out of the talks as each party did not want to change its ideological stance for the alliance with each other.[19] [20] The TMP later announced it would be contesting alone in the upcoming election while on 14 January 2023, the CPI(M) and the Congress announced to enter into seat sharing agreement for the upcoming assembly elections.[21] General Secretary of the CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury said the main purpose of organising this united front between opposition parties was to defeat the BJP.[22] [23] [24] On 25 January 2023, Left Front convenor Narayan Kar announced seat sharing formula : CPI(M) - 43 seats, Congress - 13 seats, CPI - 1 seat, RSP - 1 seat, AIFB - 1 seat and independent - 1 seat. After the Congress announced candidates for 17 seats, Left Front filled candidates in all 60 seats (CPIM - 56, CPI - 1, RSP - 1, AIFB - 1, Independent -1). Later after CPI(M) stated it would withdraw 13 candidates and allot the seats to the INC, however INC stated they were looking for 17 seats. Post discussions INC agreed to 13 seats however they were given preference in choosing the seats in which they want to contest.[25] [26]

Purushuttam Roy Barman, independent candidate of SDF from Ramnagar was also supported by the Tipra Motha Party against the BJP.[27]

Party[28] !Flag!Symbol!Leader !Bloc(s)!Seats contested
Communist Party of India (Marxist)Jitendra Chaudhury[29] LF43
Indian National CongressBirajit SinhaUPA13
Communist Party of IndiaJudhisthir Das[30] LF1
Revolutionary Socialist PartyDipak Deb[31] LF1
All India Forward BlocParesh Chandra SarkarLF1
IndependentPurushuttam Roy BarmanLF1
Total60

Others

Party!Flag!Symbol!Leader!Seats contested
All India Trinamool CongressPijush Kanti Biswas[32] 28
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) LiberationPartha Karmakar[33] 1

Candidates

Rowspan=2DistrictColspan=2ConstituencyNDASDFTMP
No.NamePartyCandidate[34] [35] [36] [37] PartyCandidate[38] [39] [40] PartyCandidate[41] [42]
West Tripura1Simna (ST)Binod DebbarmaKumodh DebbarmaBrishaketu Debbarma
2MohanpurRatan Lal NathPrasanta Sen ChowdhuryTapas Dey
3Bamutia (SC)Krishnadhan DasNayan SarkarNitai Sarkar
4Barjala (SC)Dilip Kumar DasSudip Sarkar
5KhayerpurRatan ChakrabortyPabitra Kar
6AgartalaPapiya DattaSudip Roy Barman
7RamnagarSurajit DattaBgcolor=INDPurushuttam Roy BarmanTMP supports IND
8Town BordowaliManik SahaAshish Kumar Saha
9BanamalipurRajib BhattacharjeeGopal Roy
10MajlishpurSushanta ChowdhurySanjoy DasSamir Basu
11Mandaibazar (ST)Tarit DebbarmaRadhacharan DebbarmaSwapna Debbarma
Sipahijala12Takarjala (ST)Bidhan DebbarmaShyamal DebbarmaBiswajit Kalai
West Tripura13Pratapgarh (SC)Rebati Mohan DasRamu Das
14Badharghat (SC)Mina Rani SarkarPartha Ranjan Sarkar
Sipahijala15KamalasagarAntara Sarkar DebHiranmoy Narayan DebnathAshish Das
16BishalgarhSushanta DebPartha Pratim MajumderMd Shah Alam Miah
17Golaghati (ST)Himani DebbarmaBrinda DebbarmaManav Debbarma
West Tripura18SuryamaninagarRam Prasad PaulSusanta Chakraborty
Sipahijala19Charilam (ST)Jishnu Deb BarmanAshok DebbarmaSubodh (Khatung) Debbarma
20BoxanagarTaffajal HossainSamsul HaqueAbu Khayer Miah
21Nalchar (SC)Kishor BarmanTapan Das
22SonamuraDebabrata BhattacharjeeShyamal Chakraborty
23DhanpurPratima BhoumikKoushik ChandaAmiya Noatia
Khowai24Ramchandraghat (ST)Prasanta DebbarmaRanjit DebbarmaRanjit Debbarma
25KhowaiSubrata MajumdarNirmal Biswas
26Asharambari (ST)Jayanti DebbarmaDilip DebbarmaAnimesh Debbarma
27Kalyanpur-PramodenagarPinaki Das ChowdhuryManindra DasManihar Debbarma
28TeliamuraKalyani RoyAshok Kumar BaidyaAbhijit Sarkar
29Krishnapur (ST)Bikash DebbarmaSwasthi DebbarmaMahendra Debbarma
Gomati30Bagma (ST)Ram Pada JamatiaNaresh JamatiaPurna Chandra Jamatia
31RadhakishorpurPranjit Singha RoySrikanta Datta
32MatarbariAbhishek DebroyPranajit RoyBir Noatia
33Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)Jitendra MajumdarRatan Kumar BhowmikKshir Mohan Das
South Tripura34Rajnagar (SC)Swapna MajumdarSudhan DasAbhijit Malakar
35BeloniaGautam SarkarDipankar Sen
36Santirbazar (ST)Pramod ReangSatyajit ReangHarendra Reang
37HrishyamukhDipayan ChowdhuryAsoke Chandra MitraArup Deb
38Jolaibari (ST)Sukla Charan NoatiaDebendra TripuraGaurab (Shihanu) Mog
39Manu (ST)Mailafru MogPravat ChowdhuryDhananjoy Tripura
40SabroomSankar RoyJitendra Chaudhury
Gomati41Ampinagar (ST)Patal Kanya JamatiyaParikshit KalaiPathan Lal Jamatia
Sindhu Chandra Jamatia
42AmarpurRanjit DasParimal DebnathAshi Ram Reang
43Karbook (ST)Ashim TripuraPriyamani DebbarmaSanjay Manik Tripura
Dhalai44Raima Valley (ST)Bikas ChakmaPabin TripuraNandita Debbarma Reang
45KamalpurManoj Kanti DebRubi GhoshMeri Debbarma
46Surma (SC)Swapna Das PaulAnjan DasShyamal Sarkar
47Ambassa (ST)Suchitra DebbarmaAmalendu DebbarmaChitta Ranjan Debbarma
48Karamcherra (ST)Brajalal DebnathDiba Chandra HrangkhawlPaul Dangshu
49Chawamanu (ST)Sambhu Lal ChakmaJiban Mohan TripuraHongsa Kumar Tripura
Unakoti50Pabiachhara (SC)Bhagaban Chandra DasSatyaban DasGobinda Das
51Fatikroy (SC)Sudhangshu DasSubrata DasBilas Malakar
52ChandipurTinku RoyKrishnendu ChowdhuryRanjan Sinha
53KailashaharMoboshar AliBirajit Sinha
North Tripura
54Kadamtala-KurtiDilip TantiIslam Uddin
55BagbassaJadab Lal NathBijita NathKalpana Sinha
56DharmanagarBiswa Bandhu SenChayan Bhattacharya
57JubarajnagarMalina DebnathShailendra Chandra Debnath
58PanisagarBinay Bhushan DasShital DasJoy Chung Halam
59Pencharthal (ST)Santana ChakmaSadhan Kumar ChakmaHollywood Chakma
60Kanchanpur (ST)Prem Kumar ReangRajendra ReangPhillip Kumar Reang

Issues

10323 Teachers batch

In 2017, a Tripura High Court order was confirmed by a Supreme Court bench that declared the recruitment of teachers in batches between 2010 and 2013 to be "unconstitutional" because of a policy that gave preference to poor and senior candidates. The confirmation had happened a few months before the 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election and the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised that the teachers would be retained if they came to power and their jobs would be saved even if they had to resort to amending the constitution. The teachers, numbering 10,323 extended their support to the BJP in the election and were moved to a contractual status for about two years but were then terminated and replaced with new hires. The teachers faced economic hardships after the sacking and many of them have become indebted and have resorted to menial jobs. Of those sacked, 150 have died with 8 of them confirmed to be suicides, including Rumi Debbarma, a master's degree gold medalist, who was forcefully evicted from an indefinite roadside protest and couldn't take the humiliation of termination.[43] [44]

The teachers had held hundreds of protests, demonstration and rallies, and met with several chief ministers and their cabinets. The protests were met with harsh police actions and cases lodged against several of the teachers. The BJP government in Tripura has shifted its position and refused to reinstate the teachers, one minister Ratan Lal Nath had called them unqualified.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) have extended their support to the teachers and promised to reinstate them in its manifesto. To give assurances to their promise, The Left Front has fielded two of the teachers Sudip Sarkar (CPIM) and Satyajit Reang (CPI) as its own candidates from the constituencies of Barjala and Santirbazar respectively. Former chief minister Manik Sarkar has stated that the order was "most unfortunate" as it overturned a policy that they had introduced to help the weaker sections of society and even alleged that the bench was linked to the Sangh Parivar. The Tipra Motha Party and lawyer Kapil Sibal, an independent MP have also extended their support to the teachers.[45]

Tipraland Movement

The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) has demanded a separate state for the Kokborok-speaking Tripuri population called Tipraland to be created out of the Bengali Hindu majority state from the areas included under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. However the ruling party BJP refuses to bifurcate the state.[46] TIPRA party also has won elections in 2021 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election. The TTADC areas have 20 of the 60 Assembly seats in Tripura Legislative Assembly.

Ruling BJP has offered talk with the TIPRA party for their demand. Former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb stated that demands by TIPRA are not possible without BJP.[47] But Chief Minister, Manik Saha said that Tipraland is not possible.[48]

Home Ministry on 25 January 2023 called upon TIPRA leadership to discuss the issue of Greater Tipraland. The talk however did not result in any announcement as the delegates did not reach to any agreement.[49] [50]

Bru refugees

Bru refugees who are living in shelters are demanding food and monetary help. They are demanding faster rehabilitation.[51]

Campaigns

Bharatiya Janata Party

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Agartala, Tripura on 18 December 2022 and addressed a public meeting. He was welcomed by his supporters at the city. He praised the work done by the BJP government and said that Tripura is becoming logistics hub of northeast India.[52] [53]

Manifesto[54]

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

CPI(M) launched door-to-door campaign against the ‘propaganda’ of BJP's ‘Good Governance’ on 25 December 2022 and urged people not to establish the BJP government.[55] On 8 January 2023, CPIM leaders appealed people to oust the incumbent government mentioning BJP's 2018 poll promises as 'jumla' (false promise) in a public meeting organised by Centre of Indian Trade Unions.[56]

Manifesto

CPI(M) released its manifesto on 3 February 2023.[57] [58] [59] [60]

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress organised a mega rally in Agartala on 29 December 2022 in which BJP MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl along with 1 BJP & AITC leader joined the Congress. AICC in-charge for Tripura Ajoy Kumar said at the rally, "BJP has so many fathers but we have only one father of the nation - Mahatma Gandhi,". Kumar alleged that the BJP is giving money to young people to join their "Bike Bahini" to unleash panic and assault opposition party leaders and workers.[62]

Manifesto[63]

Tipra Motha Party

TIPRA chief Pradyot Deb Barma in a rally in Agartala on 12 November 2022 said that 2023 is a fight to achieve a permanent constitutional solution in the form of Greater Tipraland. He slammed the BJP for its communal politics. He asserted that regional parties can bring about change and that his party wanted to give a constitutional solution, education, healthcare and jobs to all sections of people.[64] Manikya also emphasized that since when the party had come to power in the TTAADC last year, it has focused on bring real development in the neglected regions.[65]

Manifesto

On 4 February 2023, the Tipra Motha Party released its manifesto.[66]

Incidents

Indian National Congress

On 18 January 2023, the Congress claimed 15 of its workers and functionaries were attacked in Jirania allegedly by BJP workers who pelted stones. The attacked included AICC state-incharge Ajoy Kumar and many others.[67] [68]

Tipra Motha Party

On 19 January 2023, TIPRA Motha worker Pranajit Namasudra died after being attacked by unidentified miscreants in Dhalai. It has been reported that Namasudra and friends were travelling in a car through Bamancherra area when miscreants stopped them then dragged him out and assaulted him.[69] [70] Five persons were arrested by police in relation to the incident.[71]

Surveys & Polls

Election Commission of India had banned opinion polls and exit polls from 14 February till 7:00 pm of 27 February 2023.[72] [73] Controversy erupted in Tripura on 27 February during the polling an exit poll was circulated in social media which favoured BJP, Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman asked ECI to probe and Tipra Motha Party leader Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma called the exit poll BJP-paid.[74]

Polling agency
NDASDFTMPOthers
Zee News-Matrize[75] [76] 29–3613–2111–160–3
India Today-Axis My India36–456–119–161
Times Now-ETG[77] 21–2718–2412–171–2
India News-Jan Ki Baat29–409–1610–140–1
Poll of Polls (Average)[78] 3215120
Actual Result3314130

Results

Results by alliance and party

Results[79]
AlliancePartyPopular voteSeats
Votes%±ppContestedWon+/−
NDABharatiya Janata Party985,79738.974.625532 4
Indigenous People's Front of Tripura31,8381.266.1261 7
Total1,017,63540.2310.786033 11
SDFCommunist Party of India (Marxist)622,82924.6217.64311 5
Indian National Congress216,6378.566.77133 1
All India Forward Bloc26,1381.030.4710
Revolutionary Socialist Party17,007 0.670.0810
Independent16,558 0.65N/A10N/A
Communist Party of India12,063 0.480.3410
Total911,23236.0110.086014 2
NoneTipra Motha Party498,18219.69 19.74213New
Trinamool Congress22,3160.88 0.58280
Independents402791.6TBD0
Others0.23TBD0
NOTA34,4491.36 0.33
Total100%
Valid votes2,495,210
Invalid votes
Votes cast/ turnout2,537,76989.83%
Abstentions
Registered voters2,824,928

Results by district

DistrictSeatsNDASDFTMP
West Tripura14752
Sipahijala9423
Khowai6312
Gomati7502
South Tripura7430
Dhalai6303
Unakoti4310
North Tripura7421
Total60331413

Results by constituency

District! colspan="2"
ConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMargin
No.NameCandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%
West Tripura1Simna (ST)Brishaketu Debbarma22,75764.89Kumodh Debbarma5,81116.5716,946
2MohanpurRatan Lal Nath19,663 45.34Tapas Dey12,278 28.317,385
3Bamutia (SC)Nayan Sarkar20,11946.39Krishnadhan Das18,093 41.722,026
4Barjala (SC)Sudip Sarkar21,48650.93Dr. Dilip Kumar Das19,69746.691,789
5KhayerpurRatan Chakraborty22,45347.48Pabitra Kar18,34338.794,110
6AgartalaSudip Roy Barman26,435 57.35Papiya Dutta18,27339.648,162
7RamnagarSurajit Datta17,45546.2Purushuttam Roy BarmanBgcolor=IND16,558 43.83897
8Town BordowaliManik Saha19,58649.77Ashish Kumar Saha18,32946.61,257
9BanamalipurGopal Chandra Roy17,12849.58Rajib Bhattacharjee15,75945.611,369
10MajlishpurSushanta Chowdhury21,349 46.8Sanjoy Das16,177 35.465,172
11Mandaibazar (ST)Swapna Debbarma28,72666.35Radhacharan Debbarma7,07716.3521,649
Sipahijala12Takarjala (ST)Biswajit Kalai34,71786.81Bidhan Debbarma2,2625.6632,455
West Tripura13Pratapgarh (SC)Ramu Das26,42249.61Rebati Mohan Das24,33645.72,086
14Badharghat (SC)Mina Rani Sarkar27,427 48.94Partha Ranjan Sarkar 26,138 46.641,289
Sipahijala15KamalasagarAntara Sarkar Deb19,052 47.39Hiranmay Narayan Debnath17,30843.061,744
16BishalgarhSushanta Deb22,314 48.5220,988 45.641,326
17Golaghati (ST)Manab Debbarma19,80050.79Himani Debbarma10,602 27.29,198
West Tripura18Suryamaninagar24,991 49.9223,083 46.111,908
Sipahijala19Charilam (ST)Subodh Deb Barma 13,657 37.3412,799 34.99858
20BoxanagarSamsul Haque19,404 50.34Tafajjal Hossain14,555 37.764,849
21Nalchar (SC)Kishor Barman20,83649.95Tapan Chandra Das18,45244.242,384
22SonamuraShyamal Chakraborty20,03950.47Debabrata Bhattacharjee17,624 44.392,415
23Dhanpur19,148 42.25Kaushik Chanda 15,648 34.533,500
Khowai24Ramchandraghat (ST)Ranjit Debbarma23,14360.87Ranjit Debbarma6,94118.2616,202
25KhowaiNirmal Biswas19,696 49.73Subrata Majumdar18,656 47.11,040
26Asharambari (ST)Animesh Debbarma23,83866.56Jayanti Deb Barma5,510 15.3818,328
27Kalyanpur-PramodenagarPinaki Das Chowdhury17,903 43.59Jayanti Deb Barma 11,290 27.496,613
28TeliamuraKalyani Saha Roy16,755 42.1Ashok Kr. Baidya 12,603 31.674,152
29Krishnapur (ST)Bikash Debbarma13,800 39.97Mahendra Debbarma11,162 32.332,638
Gomati30Bagma (ST)19,482 38.74Purna Ch. Jamatia 17,399 34.62,083
31RadhakishorpurPranajit Singha Roy24,421 56.07Srikanta Datta17,007 39.057,414
32MatarbariAbhishek Debroy25,494 51.06Pranajit Roy16,453 32.959,041
33Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)Jitendra Majumder23,625 48.17Ratan Kr. Bhowmik18,574 37.875,051
South Tripura34Rajnagar (SC)Swapna Majumder20,84948.07Sudhan Das19,514451,335
35BeloniaDipankar Sen20,01648.27Goutam Sarkar19,61347.3403
36Santirbazar (ST)18,709 40.04Harendra Reang14,615 31.284,094
37HrishyamukhAsoke Chandra Mitra19,98646.37Dipayan Choudhury18,56843.081,418
38Jolaibari (ST)Sukla Charan Noatia17,62138.54Debendra Tripura17,246 37.72375
39Manu (ST)Mailafru Mog15,46934.5Pravat Chowdhury14,92233.28547
40SabroomJitendra Chaudhury21,80149.02Sankar Roy21,405 48.13396
Gomati41Ampinagar (ST)Pathan Lal Jamatia 21,525 57.03Patal Kanya Jamatia 9,339 24.7412,186
42AmarpurRanjit Das 17,989 44.21Parimal Debnath13,39532.924,594
43Karbook (ST)Sanjoy Manik Tripura 16,647 44.88Ashim Kumar Tripura 12,200 32.894,447
Dhalai44Raima Valley (ST)Nandita Debbarma (Reang) 19,269 40.66Bikash Chakma 15,827 33.403,442
45KamalpurManoj Kanti Deb 18,287 45.16Rubi Ghosh 13,027 32.175,260
46Surma (SC)Swapna Das Paul17,313 40.3Anjan Das 12,475 29.044,838
47Ambassa (ST)Chitta Ranjan Debbarma15,31733.27Suchitra Debbarma14,82432.19493
48Karamcherra (ST)Paul Dangshu20,49652.73Braja Lal Tripura9,90125.4710,595
49Chawamanu (ST)Sambhu Lal Chakma16,64441.85Hangsa Kumar Tripura13,74534.562,899
Unakoti50Pabiachhara (SC)Bhagaban Das19,542 44.46Satyaban Das19,134 43.53408
51Fatikroy (SC)Sudhangshu Das19,570 49.96Subrata Das 14,458 36.915,112
52ChandipurTinku Roy17,395 42.68Krishnendu Choudhury 16,818 41.26577
53KailashaharBirajit Sinha25,300 59.62Moboshor Ali15,614 36.89,686
North Tripura54Kadamtala-KurtiIslam Uddin20,012 49.65Dilip Tanti18,12044.951,892
55BagbassaJadab Lal Debnath 18,905 47.41Bijita Nath 17,444 43.741,461
56DharmanagarBiswa Bandhu Sen18,684 49.35Chayan Bhattacharya 17,586 46.451,098
57JubarajnagarSailendra Chandra Nath 19,386 49.29Malina Debnath19,090 48.54296
58PanisagarBinay Bhushan Das15,745 41.61Sital Das 13,247 35.012,498
59Pencharthal (ST)Santana Chakma17,781 45.5Sadhan Kumar Chakma 9,808 25.17,973
60Kanchanpur (ST)Philip Kumar Reang15,413 36.44Rajendra Reang 10,522 24.884,891

Government formation

Incumbent Chief Minister Manik Saha gave resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya and staked claim new government with support of 33 MLAs (32 BJP and 1 IPFT).[80] [81]

Aftermath

After the poll results, violent attacks were unleashed on the workers of Left Front and Congress, allegedly by BJP. The CPI(M) demanded a judicial inquiry into the violence and also wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking intervention in the matter.[82] Partido Comunista Português expressed its solidarity with CPI(M), CPI and other democratic and progressive forces in Tripura.[83] A delegation composed of Member of Parliaments from CPI(M), CPI and Congress visited Tripura on 10 March 2023 and met with the affected families and administration officials to assess the situation on the ground.[84]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-02-16. Tripura registered 89.95% polling amid six minor incidents. 2023-02-18. Deccan Herald. en.
  2. Web site: BJP secures simple majority to retain power in Tripura. 2023-03-02. www.daijiworld.com. en.
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