Mamata Banerjee Counts On Breaking Trinamool’s Tripura Jinx This Time

Mamata Banerjee campaigns for the Trinamool Congress in Tripura (PTI)

Agartala:

In poll-bound Tripura, the Trinamool Congress is placing all efforts, together with operating  campaigns by occasion chief Mamata Banerjee, asking voters to dump the nationwide events – BJP, Congress and the Left – and select the Trinamool instead.

Whereas the Trinamool is the primary opposition occasion in Meghalaya, in Tripura it’s a marginal participant, contesting alone in lower than half of Tripura’s seats.

However for Ms Banerjee, Tripura has been a political jinx that she desperately needs to interrupt.

“Everyone seems to be speaking concerning the Bangla mannequin. We’re successful world awards. They instructed you they are going to give Rs 15 lakh. Did you get the cash? Now even your LIC (Life Insurance coverage Company) cash will go,” she mentioned throughout campaigning in Tripura.

“We won’t go away Tripura. We’ve got an extended affiliation and I need to develop Tripura like I’ve performed in Bengal,” Ms Banerjee mentioned on the rally.

The occasion is making an attempt to realize a foothold within the northeastern state forward of the election subsequent week. Tripura is a vital state for the Trinamool’s nationwide growth plans.

After an unsuccessful try in Goa, the Trinamool is contesting 28 of the state’s 60 seats. A state unit of the Trinamool was fashioned in Agartala in 1999. In 2016, six congress MLAs joined the Trinamool in Tripura, however a yr later all of them joined the BJP.

The Trinamool obtained lower than 1 per cent of the vote within the 2018 state election, a ballot the BJP gained by a landslide.

Ever since Ms Banerjee fashioned the Trinamool, she has been making an attempt to make political inroads in Tripura. After Bengal, Tripura is the one Bengali-majority state.

A kind of who joined the Trinamool briefly was Sudip Roy Burman, a politician who has gained elections constantly for over twenty years.

“The Trinamool just isn’t an element. If somebody has come right here as a vote cutter, the persons are acutely aware sufficient. They know what occurred to the Trinamool in Goa or Manipur,” mentioned Mr Burman, now a Congress MLA.

He mentioned the BJP, which is trying to retain Tripura, has dismissed the Trinamool as a marginal participant.

“This not for the primary time the Trinamool got here to Tripura. They’ve been coming right here since 1999 once they have been with the BJP. Each time they arrive right here, they need to shutter up and return to Kolkata after the election outcomes are out,” mentioned Tripura Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Jishnu Dev Barma.