BJP emerges victorious in 2 Tripura parliamentary constituencies, 7-Ramnagar by-elections
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious in both Lok Sabha seats and by-elections to 7-Ramnagar assembly constituency in the state of Tripura with a giant margin.
Former chief minister and BJP candidate Biplab Kumar Deb won the West Tripura constituency with a margin of 611,578 votes (total vote – 881341) against his nearest opponent Ashish Kumar Saha of the INDIA bloc’s Congress candidate, who secured 26,9763 votes. BJP candidate for the West Tripura Parliamentary constituency and former Chief Minister Biolab Kumar Deb returned to Tripura in 2015 as an in-charge of BJP’s Maha Jansampark Abhiyan. Later he became the BJP state president, and in 2018, his party came to power in the state for the first time in alliance with a regional indigenous political party Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT). In 2022, Deb resigned from his post as the chief minister and later was elected as the lone Rajya Sabha MP from Tripura.
In the East Tripura constituency, BJP candidate Kriti Devi Debbarman won with a margin of 486,819 votes (total – 777447) against her nearest rival Rajendra Reang, the INDIA bloc’s Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate, who got 290,628 votes.
Meanwhile, Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) mayor and BJP candidate Dipak Majumder won the Ramnagar Assembly by-election with a margin of 18,014 votes ahead of his contender the INDIA bloc’s Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Ratan Das. While Majumder secured 25,380 votes, Das got only 7,366 votes.
