Last Update: 19 October 2022, 10:52 IST
Agartala (wt. Jogendranagar, India)
Sarkar, leader of the opposition, claimed that people were misled by the way the BJP presented its vision document targeting all sections of the society.
Manik Sarkar said the situation has now changed in the northeastern state and three BJP MLAs have joined different parties, while two Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLAs have joined Tipra Motha.
CPI(M) politburo member Manik Sarkar has claimed that the BJP failed to retain leaders in the parties that toppled the Left Front government in the state in 2018 as five MLAs of the ruling coalition resigned to join other organisations. The government said at a state-level program of SFI in Agartala that the situation has now changed in the northeastern state and three BJP MLAs have joined different parties, while two indigenous People’s Front (IPFT) MLAs from Tripura Tipra Motha have joined.
BJP MLAs Sudip Roybarman and Ashish Saha joined the Congress, while the saffron party’s Barbu Mohan Tripura, and IPFT’s Dhananjay Tripura and Brishketu Debbarma are now with Tipra Motha. The Leader of Opposition in the Tripura Assembly said the NDA defectors are publicly saying that they are disappointed and extremely unhappy with the working style of the saffron party. The former chief minister said on Tuesday, “It is a big setback for the ruling party ahead of the elections.
Assembly elections in Tripura are due in February next year. Before the 2018 assembly elections, all the anti-Left parties came together to defeat the Left Front government in Tripura. The result was that the BJP, whose vote share was less than five per cent before 2018, garnered 42 per cent of the vote share of the Congress and its ally INPT. “The Left Front lost seven to eight per cent votes, taking the vote share of the BJP and its ally IPFT to around 52 per cent and the saffron party winning the election,” he said.
Criticizing the BJP, he said the chief minister had to be changed 10 months before the assembly elections. The man (Biplab Kumar Deb) who was appreciated by the Prime Minister had to be thrown out of the Chief Minister’s office and a new face (Manik Saha) was brought in to lead the government.
This was done to divert people’s attention from the failures of the BJP-IPFT government. But this will not save the BJP in the 2023 elections. Urging SFI supporters to protest against the saffron party, the CPI(M) leader claimed that the BJP would be dusted if people came forward unitedly and decisively.
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