Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 2: In Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to maintain its hold on power despite an uprising from TIPRA Motha and united forces from the Left parties and Congress. TIPRA Motha had earlier threatened to prevent the saffron party from reaching the majority threshold.
In Meghalaya, the BJP not only stood for office for the first time on all 60 seats (voting for one seat has been delayed due to the death of a candidate), but it also waged a concerted campaign with its bigwigs to increase its influence in the state. The National People’s Party and the BJP were partners in the state government, however the BJP ended their partnership (NPP). Conrad Sangma, the chief minister, has suggested that the two parties might work together once more if the verdict results in another hung assembly.
Trinamool Congress has also made an effort to position itself as a more formidable opponent than Congress.
The 60-member assembly of Nagaland’s previous administration had the unusual attribute of having no opposition because all parties represented there supported the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party-led administration. The NDPP-BJP coalition is running in the elections once more using the 40:20 ratio (40 seats for the NDPP and 20 for the BJP). There were 23 candidates running for the Congress, 22 for the Naga People’s Front (NPF), 15 for the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), and 12 for each of the Nationalist Congress Party and National People’s Party.
