Agartala, March 2: The BJP retained power in Tripura for the second consecutive term by winning 32 seats in the 60-member state assembly.

The BJP supporters celebrated their win in Tripura by bursting crackers.

The tribal-based Tipra Motha Party (TMP), which contested the assembly elections for the first time and that too in 42 seats on its own, became the second biggest party securing 13 seats.

The CPI-M won 11 seats while the Congress won three seats. The CPI-M led Left Front, which contested the elections on a seat sharing deal with Congress, had put up 47 candidates and allotted 13 seats to the Congress.

The candidate of BJP ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won the Jolaibari seat in southern Tripura.

In the February 16 elections to the 60-seat Tripura Assembly, 89.95 per cent of the 28.14 lakh voters exercised their franchise to decide the fate of 259 candidates, including 31 women.

In the 2018 assembly polls, the BJP had won 36 seats and its ally bagged eight seats while the CPI-M secured 16 seats.