The Left Front, which bit the dust in the bye-polls held in Dhanpur and Boxanagar on September 5, rejected the mandates -of the victory of BJP candidates- saying that their allegations of ‘rigging’ was vindicated by the huge votes that the BJP candidates pooled in their support. The Left Front had earlier also boycotted the counting on Friday.
The Left Front in a statement said, “ from the results of the bye-elections to two Assembly seats i. e. in 20-Boxanagar and 23-Dhanpur Assembly constituencies as published by the Chief electoral Officer, Tripura indisputably vindicated the allegation of the Left Front that, the election in both the constituencies was totally rigged and reduced to mockery of democracy in the name of elections”.
“The results shows that, the BJP candidates in Boxanagar and Dhanpur have won the election securing 89% and 71% of total polled votes respectively. In the history of state election, Except Dasaratha Deb in Ramchandraghat Assembly seat, there is no record of any candidate getting such a high percentage of vote in any genuine election”.
“While in the general election held in February this year, the CPI(M) won in Boxanagar and lost Dhanpur with a marginal difference in triangular contest. Within six months, nothing happened in the state political scenario that may lead shifting of such a huge number of voters toward the ruling party”
The Left Front alleged that it was a ‘manufactured verdict managed by the ruling party with the help of a section of police and civil administration in league with the Election Department’.
The Left reiterated its earlier accusations saying that immediately after the poll, witnessing the widespread capture of polling booths by the BJP followers mobilized from outsides who resorted to rampant manipulations in most of the polling booths in front of the electoral staff and police, the Tripura Left Front Committee raised demand to countermand the election and arrange a fresh poll in both the constituencies. But the Election Commission of India did not pay cognigence to this genuine demand.
