Tripura municipal election 2021 - BJP wins 217 seats
Agartala: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the verge of registering a landslide victory in the Tripura Municipal Elections. The Trinamool Congress bagged the second highest number of votes after BJP in the Agartala Municipal Corporation.
The BJP has bagged a landslide victory in the Tripura civic polls, winning all 14 urban bodies which went to the polls on November 25. It did a clean sweep of 11 urban bodies, including Agartala Municipal Corporation.
Out of the 222 seats across the 14 urban bodies that went to the polls, the BJP emerged victorious in 217.
CPIM won in three seats across three urban bodies—Kailashahar and Ambassa Municipal Councils and Panisagar Nagar Panchayat.
the State Election Commission said the
BJP has established an absolute majority in the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), winning all 51 seats.
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Saha won the election in the town's Bardowali assembly seat by 6,104 votes against his nearest rival Asish Kumar Saha of Congress.
Sudip Roy Barman, who resigned as a BJP MLA and joined Congress in February, won by 3,163 votes against BJP candidate Ashok Sinha.
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Saha is currently the Rajya Sabha MP from Tripura and is the president of the state's BJP unit. He's a dentist by profession.
Tripura former health minister and BJP MLA Sudip Roy Barman and MLA Ashish Kumar Saha joined Congress on Tuesday after meeting Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi.
Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha resigned from BJP and their MLA posts in the Tripura Assembly on Monday.
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There was no question-answer session.
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