The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday claimed a big win in the upcoming by-elections to two assembly constituencies of the state and termed the opposition Congress and the CPI-M as ‘diminishing party’.
The party held a crucial meeting ahead of the election under the chairmanship of the party’s national spokesperson and North-East coordinator Sambit Patra here at Agartala. Senior party leaders including Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, former Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Verma, party’s state president Rajib Bhattacharjee, Minister Ratan Lal Nath, MoS for SJ&E Pratima Bhoumik, Minister Tinku Roy and other attended the meeting.
“The BJP will win big in the ensuing bye-elections and Lok Sabha election,” claimed Ratan Lal Nath, adding that both the Congress and the CPI-M are gradually diminishing from the state and will surely lose the ground in the upcoming elections.
Talking tough against the CPI-M, Nath said, “The communist party will come down to third position like that of the 2023 assembly election and the party will then come down to the fourth position in the ensuing Lok Sabha election.”
He said that the BJP will announce the candidates list on August 16 next to contest the assembly constituencies of Dhanpur and Boxanagar.
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