Tipra Motha, which is making its assembly polldebut, is contesting in 42 of the complete 60 seats within the February 16 Tripura elections. Round 20 of those are tribal seats whereas the remaining 22 are non-tribal ones.
The event has fielded outmoded MLA Ashish Das from Kamalasagar assembly constituency. Das had resigned from the BJP final year and joined Trinamool Congress and later left it to affix Tipra Motha.
Led by royal scion, Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman, Motha is having a gaze to branch out into the non-tribal areas of the voice.
Tipra had received the Tripura Tribal Areas Self sustaining District Council elections in 2021. This Council’s ambit of alter covers over two-thirds of Tripura’s 10,491 sq km space with a population of about 1.2 million folks, of which 90% are tribals. This accounts for 20 assembly seats.
In 2018, the BJP contested in 11 seats within the tribal areas whereas its ally, the Indigenous Folks’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), contested in nine. Whereas IPFT received eight seats, the BJP wrested 10 seats and two seats were bagged by the CPM.
In 2018, the BJP received a total of 36 seats within the 60-member assembly whereas IPFT received eight.
BJP and Tipra had talked about seat-sharing and the chance of an alliance, however it did now not determine. Even the Left parties and Congress had prolonged its provide to Tipra to affix the opposition front.
Deb Barman had stated, “I in actuality receive stated earlier and I’m asserting now that unless we fetch in writing from the Authorities of India on a separate voice, we are now not attractive into an alliance. Since 1976, all parties of Tiprasa had long gone to Delhi and entered into an agreement sooner than the election and post-election, Tiprasa did now not fetch anything else.”
He stated, “We went to Delhi and listened to what they had to suppose. They’ve now not given anything else in writing. There will probably be no alliance on this election.”
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