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Left Front set to retain power in Tripura
Thursday February 28, 2013 10:25:52 AM,
IANS
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Agartala: The ruling
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front was
Thursday set to retain power for the fifth straight term in
Tripura.
The Left Front was leading in 44 seats while the opposition
Congress-INPT (Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura) alliance
was ahead in six seats in the initial rounds of counting of
ballots for the 60-member house.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar was heading for victory from Dhaunpur
in west Tripura while Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury and other
cabinet colleagues were also leading against their Congress
nominees.
The Congress candidates who were ahead were state party chief
Sudip Roy Barman and opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath in the
Agartala and Mohanpur constituencies in western Tripura,
respectively.
The northeastern state of Tripura made electoral history when a
record 93.57 percent of the 2.3 million electorate exercised their
franchise in the Feb 14 election.
Thursday's result of counting of ballots would decide the
political fate of 249 candidates, including 15 women and many
independents in 60 seats of the state assembly.
"Counting of ballots have been under way in 60 halls in 17 venues
simultaneously since 8 a.m. Final results are likely to be out by
afternoon," Tripura chief electoral officer Ashutosh Jidal told
IANS.
The Left Front has been in power since 1978, barring one term
during 1988 to 1993.
In the last elections in 2008, the Left registered a thumping
victory. The CPI-M alone won 46 seats and partners Communist Party
of India and Revolutionary Socialist Party secured one and two
seats respectively. The Congress bagged 10 seats and the INPT one.
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