Tripura civic polls: BJP wins all seats of 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation

The ruling BJP on Sunday swept the civic body elections in Tripura having won all the seats of the 51member Agartala Municipal Corporation AMC and clinching several other urban local bodiesThe opposition TMC and CPIM failed to open their account in the AMC The saffron party secured all the wards in the 15member Khowai Municipal Council 17seat Belonia Municipal Council 15member Kumarghat Municipal Council and ninemember Sabroom Nagar Panchayat state election commission officials saidThe party made a clean sweep in the 25ward Dharmanagar Municipal Council 15seat Teliamura Municipal Council and 13member Amarpur Nagar Panchayat they said Sonamura Nagar Panchayat and Melaghar Nagar Panchayat became opposition less with the BJP having won all the 13 seats each It also bagged the 11member Jirania Nagar PanchayatThe party secured 12 seats of Ambassa Municipal Council while the TMC and the CPIM won one seat each and another went to an independent candidateThe BJP also won 16 seats of Kailashahar Municipal Council and the CPIM got one In Panisagar Nagar Panchayat the BJP emerged victorious in 12 seats and the CPI M bagged oneThe saffron party had fielded candidates for all the 334 seats of Agartala Municipal Corporation 13 municipal bodies and six Nagar Panchayats in the state where its nominees won in 112 places uncontested Elections to 222 seats were held on November 25 The ruling BJP is locked in a battle with the Trinamool Congress which is foraying into the North east and elsewhere to establish itself as a national party and with the CPIM which the saffron camp had dethroned from power in the state some years agoThe TMC which alleged voterigging and intimidation in the elections had demanded countermanding of the entire polls The CPIM had sought fresh elections in five municipal bodies including the AMC Both parties had claimed that the authorities remained silent spectators as BJP supporters attacked political rivals and rigged the elections The saffron camp however stoutly denied the chargesReacting to the impressive performance by his party in the elections BJP vice president Dilip Ghosh said in Kolkata that the results of Tripura civic polls have exposed the hollowness of TMCs claims of having made inroads into the northeastern state He said people there have faith in the saffron party Describing TMC workers campaigning in Tripura as hired people Ghosh told reporters his party shares a strong bond with the residents of that stateAlso Read Give extra force for Tripura local polls SC to CentreThe civic poll results are on expected lines The TMC did not have any chance to open its account in Tripura they only made noises This verdict shows hired people from West Bengal cannot help a party create a base in a state which has faith in the BJP Ghosh addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever