Maintaining status quo in the Northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, the BJP and its allies returned to power in the results declared Thursday.
The party overcame a Left-Congress alliance and the TIPRA Motha, which had emerged as a force to reckon with in tribal seats, to bag 32 seats in Tripura, two more than the halfway mark. It retained power in Nagaland along with senior alliance partner Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP). In Meghalaya, BJP’s senior ruling ally National People’s Party (NPP) emerged as the single-largest party – both are expected to tie up again after fighting the elections separately.
The Tripura result underlined the party’s popular acceptance in the erstwhile Left bastion that it won for the first time in 2018 even though its seat tally came down from 36 five years ago to 32. But a point of concern for the ruling party will be the emergence of the TIPRA Motha that won 13 seats while its tribal ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won just one constituency, down from eight the previous time.
As the final numbers emerge in Meghalaya, it will be 45-year-old Conrad Sangma, the son of former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, who will call the shots on the final seat-sharing arrangement. Though short of the majority mark of 31, it will not be difficult for the NPP to cobble up the numbers. With 11 seats, the party’s old ally United Democratic Party (UDP) has almost doubled its tally of six seats it won in 2018 and the BJP too has extended its support to the NPP.
In Nagaland, the NDPP-BJP alliance increased its tally from 29 to 37 and Neiphiu Rio is poised to return as CM for the fifth term. Among the most significant outcomes is that the Nagaland Legislative Assembly is going to have women MLAs for the first time. Both the NDPP’s women candidates Hekani Jakhalu from Dimapur III and Salhoutuonuo Kruse from Western Angami won and created history.
Now, Northeast is neither door from Dilli nor from Dil: Modi
Today's results show that that in India, democracy and democratic institutions still stand strong and people beliefs in these institutions remains strong: Modi
I bow and thank the people of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. The people of these states have blessed the BJP. I congratulate the workers of the 3 states: Modi
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