(Dipak Majumdar who is a front runner for the position of AMC Mayor being greeted by Education MInister Ratan Lal Nath)
Ruling BJP on an expected line swept all the Civic bodies across the state routing the Trinamool Congress and CPM. The most prestigious and most contested Agartala Municipal Corporation also went to BJP with all its 334 seats in 51 Wards. In other Urban Local Bodies same were the results.
The thumping victory of the BJP also threw a wet blanket on all the hypes and speculations that the West Bengal media sought to create in favour of TMC which put all its cards, as advised by the Prasant Kisore headed I-Pac, for a showdown in an attempt to make a foray into Tripura politics. The TMC in simple words failed to make a foot print in the state in the face of BJP wave.
Congress dogged by its traditional internecine infights and leadership crisis was irrelevant this time but opposition CPM which had some party base, failed to make any headway.
Not only all the AMC Wards but BJP also secured all the wards in the 15-member Khowai Municipal Council, 15-member Kumarghat Municipal Council and nine-member Sabroom Nagar Panchayat. It swept the 15-ward Teliamura Municipal council and 13-member Amarpur Nagar Panchayat.
In Sonamura Nagar panchayat and Melaghar Nagar Panchayat again it BJP that had the last lough winning all the 13 seats each. The 11-member Jirania Nagar Panchayat also went to BJP.
Once a Communist bastion Belonia it was the Saffron that became the colour of the civic body – the BJP won 17 wards of Belonia Municipal Council. One Ward’s result was awaited.
In Ambassa however TMC and CPM managed to wrest one seat each in the Municipal Council while BJP got 12 seats in its kitty. Interestingly, the TIPRA Motha supported Independent candidate make it to the council—which comes under the ST reserved seat, of course.
In the 25-member Dharmanagar Municipal Council, it was BJP too.
In Kailasahar the BJP won in 16 of the 17-member Kailashahar Municipal Council and the CPM got one.
Panisagar of late witnessed heat and came to national media headlines for all the wrong reason—where some vested interests sought to create communal disharmony with an aim to discredit the ruling party and give some mileage to an opposition. But here also the ruling BJP got mandate in 12 seats. One seat went to CPM.
Earlier, BJP had won in 112 places uncontested.
As it came clear, in Muslim dominated seats also BJP secured huge mandate in its favour – to the much consternation of the Trinamool Congress , as it largely banked upon the minority votes to repeat the West Bengal experience.
