In Tripura, a state ruled by the Left for over 24 years, elections are only six months away. This week, the BJP went from having zero legislators in the state to becoming the main opposition party when six Trinamool Congress MLAs switched over to the BJP. The party claims soon a Congress legislator will follow suit. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who is in his fourth consecutive term, claims that BJP's surge would turn the early 2018 assembly polls into a Right versus Left straight fight, but he and his party would ensure that the BJP's election winning dream run in the country would end in Tripura.
