Showing posts with label Defeat of Stalinist Left in Tripura Polls 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Defeat of Stalinist Left in Tripura Polls 2018. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 March 2018

Continued Decimation of the Left in Tripura Polls after West Bengal, Creates the Political Void and the Challenge to Fill It

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 3.3.2018

Stalinist Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPM, that could keep itself in power for 25 years in a row, stands routed in recent polls to Legislative Assembly of Tripura. Stalinists suffered a shameful defeat at the hands of the rightwing hindu supremacist BJP and its local ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, IPFT.

While CPM was decimated to 16 seats, BJP alone secured 35 while its local ally IPFT begged 8, total seat tally going to 43. BJP also secured a vote share slightly ahead of the CPM at 43% as compared to 42.6 percent of the CPM.Congress, the biggest party of Indian bourgeoisie failed to secure even a single seat in Tripura Assembly and its vote share was drastically marginalized to 2% from 25% in 2013.