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.
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.
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.
Manik Sarkar, the four-time Chief Minister told a news channel 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 result." Sarkar told NDTV.
He also said that they were collecting all information from different corners of the state and it won't be correct to draw a conclusion before analysing the statistics.
On Sunday, Sarkar submitted his resignation to Governor Tathagata Roy. However, the governor advised him to continue until the new chief minister takes the oath.
The ruling CPI(M) in Kerala said that the party's defeat in the assembly election in Tripura should be viewed with utmost seriousness.
Senior party leader and state Minister AK Balan alleged that the saffron party had "misused" money and power at the Centre for their victory in the northeastern state, which was considered as the fortress of the Left party.
Veteran party leader and former chief minister VS Achutanandan urged the party leadership to join hands with secular forces to fight the Sangh Parivar.
However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the people of the Northeast have rejected the "politics of hate" by "unanimously" voting the BJP to power.
Modi, while addressing a youth convention via video-conferencing, said the poll results of Tripura had given him immense joy.
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