BJP bagged Town Bardowali, Jubarajnagar and Surma seats, while Sudip Roy Barman of the Congress won from Agartala. TMC candidates lost their deposits in all four seats.
In a sudden move Saturday, Biplab Kumar Deb announced his resignation as Tripura CM. Manik Saha, who has served as state BJP president, was chosen to replace him.
Dr Manik Saha, who took oath Sunday, said he has ‘very good chemistry’ with ex-CM Biplab Deb, and that the leadership change won’t impact BJP’s prospects for 2023 assembly polls.
According to sources, the central leadership had been in the know of the increasing factionalism within the state unit and had given ‘several chances’ to Biplab Kumar Deb to address it but he failed
Biplab Deb had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda Thursday for a confabulation on the party's affairs in the Northeastern state.
The demand for a separate state for indigenous Tripuris (also known as Tiprasas or Tipras) is not a new one, and has been raised several times since 2009.
While an open tender has been issued for procurement of the optical instruments, Bengaluru-based firm Tonbo Imaging, whose services the Army has previously used, is a frontrunner.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.