Victory in Tripura Assembly Bye-Election
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 16, 2016.
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), now in session in New Delhi, hails the victory of the CPI(M) candidate in the bye-election to the Amarpur assembly constituency in Tripura.
The Polit Bureau has congratulated the Tripura state committee for this victory and thanked the people of Amarpur for reposing their faith in the Party.
The detailed result along with the statement of the Tripura state secretariat of the Party is given below:
Result of bye-election to 42-Amarpur Assembly constituency in Tripura was declared today. As expected, Left Front sponsored CPI(M) candidate Parimal Debnath won the election with the biggest ever margin in this constituency defeating his nearest BJP candidate by more than 10 thousand votes. The Left Front candidate polled more than 60 percent of the valid votes and the BJP candidate got 28.92 percent vote. All other candidates in the contest including the Congress have lost their deposits. The results are:
Total votes in the constituency – 38,271
Total valid votes – 33,740
Polling percentage – 88.16 percent
Votes polled by the candidates
Parimal Debnath | CPI(M) | 20,355 | 60.33% won |
Ranjit Das | BJP | 9,758 | 28.92% |
Chanchal Dey | INC | 1,231 | 3.65% |
Pabitra Mohan Jamatia | IPFT | 1,623 | 4.81% |
Nakshatra Jamatia | INPT | 146 | 0.43% |
Bijoy Das | Amara Bangali | 149 | 0.44% |
Ranajoy Jamatia | Independent | 216 | 0.64% |
| NOTA | 262 | 0.78% |
The Tripura state secretariat of the Party in a statement conveyed warm greetings to the people of this constituency for this landslide victory. The secretariat also thanked the election staff and officers, security jawans and officials for the free and fair peaceful conduct of the election without any incident.
The margin of the CPI(M) candidate in this bye-election is bigger by about 6500 than that in the 2013 general assembly election. This indicates that Left Front’s support base is gradually getting wider through implementation of innumerable development projects by the Left Front government. A large section of Congress supporters seemingly voted for the BJP, as indicated in this poll result. This nakedly exposed the bankruptcy of the state Congress leadership in carrying on ideological struggle against Hindutva elements, the statement said.
