GG News Bureau
Agartala, 14th Jan. The CPI(M) and Congress have announced that they will run in the Tripura assembly elections together, causing a major upheaval in the northeastern state’s political landscape, where the two parties were considered arch-rivals.
The announcement came following a meeting between AICC general secretary Ajoy Kumar and CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Choudhury on Friday evening. Narayan Kar, the convener of the Left Front, was also present at the meeting.
“A state Congress team will sit with the CPI(M) state secretary to formulate a strategy and finalise the seat sharing. We will fight together in the assembly elections,” Kumar told reporters.
Tripura will hold assembly elections this year.
Choudhury stated that both the CPI(M) and the Congress have begun talks with “an open mind” in order to fulfill the people’s aspirations and defeat the BJP, which has been “destroying the constitutional order” in the state for the past five years.
“The number of seats is not important, but the defeat of the saffron party is the main agenda,” he said.
Choudhury also stated that his party is in discussions with Tipra Motha chairman Pradyot Debbarma.
The announcement represents a seismic shift in the state’s political landscape, as the Congress had been the main opposition to the CPI(M)-led Left Front, which had ruled Tripura for 25 years before being defeated by the BJP in 2018.
Meanwhile, the ruling BJP claimed that an alliance between the CPI(M) and the Congress would be beneficial.
“Earlier, they used to maintain cozy relations covertly, and now it will be in the open. In fact, the CPI(M) had ruled for so long because of its understanding with the Congress,” BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee said.
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