Bharatiya Janata Party has lost early momentum and struggling to cross halfway mark in Tripura Assembly. After several rounds of counting of EVM votes, BJP is leading in 28 seats and its ally IPFT in one seat out of total 60 Assembly constituencies.
Congress-CPIM alliance is leading in 18 seats while Tipra Motha party is in 12 seats. Independent is leading in one constituency.
Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha is maintaining a slender margin over his nearest Congress-CPIM alliance candidate Ashish Saha. Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma is trailing in Charilam.
BJP State president Rajib Bhattacharjee is trailing in Banamalipur and Congress candidate Gopal Roy is leading in this constituency.
CPIM State secretary and chief Ministerial candidate of Cong-CPIM alliance Jitendra Choudhury is leading in Sabroom constituency.
Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman is leading in 6-Agartala seat over his rival Papia Datta of BJP while BJP’s Surajit Datta is leading in Ramnagar.
In Teliamura Assembly seat, BJP’s Heavyweight candidate Kalyani Roy is trailing and Tipra Motha candidate Abhijit Sarkar is leading.
Tipra Motha candidate Ranjit Debbarma is leading in Ramchandraghat seat.
In Kamalpur constituency, BJP’s Manoj Kanti Deb is leading and BJP’s Ratan Lal Nath is leading in Mohanpur constituency.
At Bagma, BJP’s Rampada Jamatia is leading. Bijita Nath of CPIM is narrowly ahead of BJP’s Jadab Lal Debnath.
At Ampinagar, BJP’s State Vice president Patal Kanya is trailing and Pathan lal Jamatia is maintaining a healthy lead.