8 years ago
Counting of votes in the hotly contested Tripura assembly election 2018 has ended. The BJP, spearheaded by its Tripura chief Biplab Kumar Deb, got 43 seats along with its ally the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura. The 20-year run of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) has ended. "People in Tripura wanted to change the communist government for a long time. The mood is there," Biplab Kumar Deb, a former RSS volunteer who also fought his first election, told NDTV. At 49, he is the youngest state BJP chief in the country and is said to have built the party organisation from scratch in Tripura. Mr Sarkar, on the other hand, who ran for his fifth term as chief minister, addressed some 50 rallies in Tripura.
