The People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) said that it is unlikely to join Tripura government if they are not offered respectable positions in the new Ministry.
The People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) said that it is unlikely to join Tripura government if they are not offered respectable positions in the new Ministry.
The BJP-IPFT combine scripted history by winning the Tripura Assembly polls with a two-third majority, ending 25 years of uninterrupted rule of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in the northeastern state. The BJP and the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won 43 seats and the CPI(M) won 16.
IPFT president NC Debbarma said that the party will support BJP government in Tripura from outside if not given 'respectable' position in new ministry.
However, according to sources, to offer a truce to its ally, BJP leaders have unofficially offered the post of Deputy Chief Minister to the tribal party.
The IPFT's key demands, apart from the CM's post to a tribal face, is that they should be given the portfolios of Home, Rural Development, Tribal Welfare and General Administration and Land. It also plans to again raise the demand of separate statehood, although BJP has categorically ruled out its possibility before election.
Newly elected MLAs of the BJP and its ally IPFT in Tripura will meet here on March 6 (tomorrow) to elect their leader. Union minister Nitin Gadkari will be present at the meeting.
Tripura BJP party chief Biplab Kumar Deb had earlier said he was ready to take on the mantle of chief minister, but a decision on it would be taken by the party's highest decision making body, the Parliamentary Board.
Deb, a gym instructor-turned-politician, thanked the people of Tripura for their overwhelming support and credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah with the party's showing.
Outgoing Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that the Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in Tripura was unexpected and they were not prepared for such a result.
Manik Sarkar, the four-time Chief Minister said that the BJP victory had caught him off guard and was completely unexpected.
"We will review this defeat...We were not prepared for such a result...This is a completely unexpected resul," he said.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and many other Union ministers are likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony.
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