Agartala, Mar 22: For the first time in 72 years electoral history of Tripura, the Congress and Left parties come together to contest the parliamentary elections jointly against the BJP.

In the last Tripura Assembly election, both the parties fought against the ruling party.

Tripura West Lok Sabha seat, the main contest will be between the BJP nominee and former Tripura Chief Minister, Biplab Kumar Deb and state Congress President, Ashish Kumar Saha, who is a common candidate of the INDIA bloc.

Congress President Saha and sitting Congress MLA, Sudip Roy Barman quit the BJP in February 2022 after being elected to the state Assembly on the party’s tickets in March 2018.

Of Tripura’s two Lok Sabha seats — Tripura West and Tripura East – the electoral focus was always on the Tripura West Lok Sabha seat, which was won by the CPI(M) 11 times since 1952.

In the last year’s Assembly polls, Saha and Barman contested as Congress nominees against the BJP but the former failed to win, though the latter retained his seat.

The Left Front has been contesting each election against the Congress, which came to power in Tripura last time in 1988 after defeating the Left parties.

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