2018 Tripura election will be remembered as an epoch-making one: Narendra Modi
New Delhi, Mar 3 (IBNS): Welcoming BJP's landmark victory in Tripura, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the win in the state will be remembered as an 'epoch-making one'.
He said by bringing BJP to power the people of Tripura have performed an 'extraordinary' act.
He promised to develop Tripura under the new rule.
"2018 Tripura election will be remembered as an epoch-making one! What my sisters and brothers of Tripura have done is extraordinary. No words will be enough to thank them for the phenomenal support towards @BJP4Tripura. We will leave no stone unturned in transforming Tripura," Modi tweeted.
"The victory of @BJP4Tripura is not an ordinary electoral victory. This journey from ‘Shunya’ to ‘Shikhar’ has been made possible due to a solid development agenda and the strength of our organisation. I bow to every BJP Karyakarta for working assiduously on the ground for years," he said.
The victory of BJP also ended the 25-year-long Left Front rule in the state.
"The historic victory in Tripura is as much an ideological one. It is a win for democracy over brute force and intimidation. Today peace and non-violence has prevailed over fear. We will provide Tripura the good government that the state deserves," he said.
Creating history, the Modi wave dismantled the 25-year-long Left regime in Tripura and surged ahead in Nagaland to firm up its stronghold in the northeast belt even as Congress managed to emerge as the gainer of highest number of seats in Meghalaya.
In an unprecedented poll result, the BJP has uprooted the Left from its last surviving bastion in the country if Kerala, where it is in power, is discounted with voter there changing governments every alternate terms.
In Tripura, the BJP has decimated the Manik Sarkar government by securing 41 in a 60-member Assembly with a poll left still in one constituency.
The Left, which secured just 18 seats coming down from earlier 51, could barely counter the "Chalo Paltai (Lets make a change)" slogan raised by the saffron brigade ahead of the election.
The Congress, which was earlier the prime opponent of the Left in Tripura, failed to even open its account in the midst of a bilateral contest between the Left and the Right wings.
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