Agartala, Aug 30: Riding on the ‘Double Engine Government’s’ success, the BJP will come back to power in the 2023 assembly polls with two-third majority, BJP national president J.P. Nadda said here on Monday after his series of meetings with the leaders of all ranks and frontal bodies.

Nadda, who came to Tripura on Sunday on a two-day hectic tour to gear up the BJP and its frontal organisations for the next assembly elections in early next year, said that after 35-years of misgovernance of the CPI-M government, the BJP government after coming to power in 2018 undertook a mission of development and established peace and ethnic harmony.

“The culture of bandh (shut down), road blockade, political and insurgency violence stopped during the BJP governance,” he claimed.

Nadda’s two-day Tripura visit gave special impetus to the vital tribal vote bank (the state has 20 tribal reserve seats of the 60 seats), and met tribal leaders, tribal MLAs, leaders of the BJP-ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and members of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), a politically important constitutional body set up in 1985.

While addressing a big public meeting at the TTAADC headquarters at Khwumlung (a tribal dominated area), 20 km from Agartala, Nadda said that only BJP can develop the socio-economic aspect of the tribals and the BJP would take the tribals into the mainstream of life.

To explain how BJP gave importance to the tribals’ development, Nadda said: “With BJP’s initiative a woman President was elected for the first time in India from the tribal community. There are eight ministers in the central ministry from the tribal community and there are five tribal ministers in Tripura council of ministry.”

“Tribal affairs ministry was first constituted by the central government headed by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. National Tribal Institute was set up for the first time in 75 years and Janjatiya Gaurav Divas was announced for the all round development of the tribals.”

Quoting the Chief Minister Manik Saha and former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who were sitting on his side both during the media briefing and at the public rally stage, Nadda said that the promises given in the “Vision Document-2018” is already fulfilled.

Highlighting the achievements of the BJP governments both at the Centre and the State, he said Tripura is now in a new height of peace and development.

“The upcoming new Special Economic Zone (in southern Tripura) would change the economic scenario of Tripura. With the serious initiatives of the BJP government, pineapple, jackfruit, and lemon are being exported to many countries facilitating the farmers to raise their income,” he pointed out.

Nadda said that with the extension of railway lines in Tripura’s southernmost region, economic and tourism development and other communication facilities are being boosted in a big way there by creating a scope of huge jobs and increasing the earnings of people.

“For the women empowerment, the Tripura government has already announced 33 per cent reservations in government jobs. The state’s annual budget has increased from Rs 12,600 crore to Rs 27,000 crore. The per capita income of the people of Tripura has increased tremendously.”

Terming the 35-year (1978 to 1988 and 1993 to 2018) rule of Left parties as “dark days of Tripura”, the BJP leader said that the tribals were deprived, youth exploited and no welfare step was undertaken for the empowerment of women during the CPI-M regime.

He further said the erstwhile Congress government in Tripura (1988-1993) had allowed terrorism, infiltration and corruption; and asserted that only BJP can develop all people belonging to different community and castes.