Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi
New Delhi, Mar 2: Counting of votes is in progress in three north-eastern states, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Nagaland. As per current figures, the BJP is set to come to power again in Tripura.
The BJP coalition has won 33 seats, the Leftist coalition 16 seats, and TIPRA has won 11 seats in Tripura. The elections were held for Tripura Vidhan Sabha on February 16, with more than 24.66 voters casting their votes out of the 28.14 lakh voters in the state. In Meghalaya, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma won the South Tura constituency with 10,090 votes, defeating his rival Bernard Marak of the BJP.
The NPP is leading in 26 out of 60 Assembly constituencies in Meghalaya and is set to retain power for a second consecutive term. However, the Chief Minister's elder brother, James Pangsang K. Sangma, and a three-time NPP MLA, was defeated by Rupa M Marak of the Trinamool Congress in the Dadenggre constituency by a narrow margin of just 18 votes. In Nagaland, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was re-elected from the Town Bordowali seat for the second time after defeating his nearest Congress opponent Ashish Kumar Saha by a margin of 1,257 votes. Manik Saha is likely to be the Chief Minister of the second BJP government in Tripura, which first came to power in the 2018 Assembly polls.
(With inputs from IANS)