Tripura Congress didn't field candidate in Boxanagar & its 2-time MLA defected to BJP in run up to 5 September bypoll. TIPRA chief said CPI(M)'s campaign left much to be desired.
Tipraha Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance Motha chief Pradyot Kishore said Home Minister Amit Shah assured that the Centre will soon start discussions on the demands.
While discussions are at early stage, TIPRA Motha chief may contest from Tripura East Lok Sabha seat as part of seat-sharing arrangement. Debbarma is close to Gandhi siblings.
In a video clip on his official Facebook page, Debbarma said TIPRA Motha won’t entertain 'offer of some post’ since his party was made for a ‘constitutional solution’.
BJP-IPFT combine in Tripura won a clear majority with 33 seats, but deeper analysis shows its victory margin over Left-Congress in 18 seats was less than vote share of TIPRA Motha.
With BJP in for comfortable majority, immediate challenge for TIPRA chief Debbarma is to keep his flock together given many of his candidates would want to be in the party in power.
BJP has won 4 and is leading in 8 seats, Pradyot Debbarma's TIPRA Motha has won 4 and is leading in 8 seats. Left Front is leading in 11 seats and Congress in 3.
On final day of campaigning ahead of voting in Tripura, TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Debbarma said he will 'be around for his people' but won't address any more political rallies.
An estimated over 450 Bengalis were hacked to death, allegedly by tribals, in the massacre that had been described by then Tripura Chief Minister Nripen Chakroborty as a “genocide”.
Campaigning for TIPRA Motha candidate in areas bordering Bangladesh, Pradyot Debbarma says BJP did fraud for 5 years in Tripura & adds only Motha can save local, indigenous people.
The electorate reaffirmed SAD (Badal) as the genuine Akali Dal—not by awarding it the seat, but by positioning it where it matters in a Panthic contest: Second, and unambiguously so.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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