Left front confident of winning Tripura polls: CPI

Guwahati, February 28. 2018:

Veteran communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy today expressed doubts over the two exit polls which predicted the BJP’s win in Tripura elections, and said the Left front is confident of returning to power.

Noting that some exit polls after the last Assembly elections in Bihar and Delhi had gone awry, the CPI general secretary said he has his own doubts about the latest ones on the northeastern state’s poll.

He pointed out that one exit poll has given the BJP-IPFT alliance a vote share of 51 per cent, while another has given the ruling Left front 45-46 per cent, terming the difference in percentage “a little”.

Reddy also said that the C-Voter exit poll has given the “advantage” to the Left front. The C-Voter exit poll has predicted a close finish in Tripura, with the CPI-M likely to get 26 to 34 seats with 44.3 per cent vote share, the BJP and its allies to get 24 to 32 seats with a vote share of 42.8 per cent, while the Congress may win only around two seats with a vote share of 7.2 per cent.

It may be mentioned that on February 18, voting was held in 59 of the total 60 seats in Tripura Assembly. The polling could not be held in the Charilam constituency due to the death of CPI(M) candidate Ramendra Narayan Deb Barma earlier this month. The constituency will go to polls on March 12.