Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Friday said that the people of Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly constituency had rejected the ‘Politics of appeasement’ and preferred the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Politics of development’ in this by-election.
Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarter on Friday evening, CM Dr. Saha said, “The result of by-elections in both the seats had shown that people had chosen PM Modi’s ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’ to end the politics of appeasement and divisive politics.”
In a major setback for the opposition Communist Party and the Congress Party in Tripura ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made an easy sweep in the by-elections of Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly constituency to bloom Lotus in the entire Sonamura subdivision of the Sepahijala district.
BJP candidate Tafajjal Hossain who contested against the CPI-M’s Mizan Hossain in Boxanagar assembly constituency got 34,146 votes and swept the elections by 30,237, while his rival candidate Hossain got only 3,909 votes.
On the other hand, the BJP candidate Bindu Debnath bagged the Dhanpur seat, which has a significant tribal population, by 18,871 votes. Debnath got 30,017 votes, and his nearest rival Kaushik Chanda of the CPI-M got 11,146 votes.
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