Current CM of Tripura: Manik Saha (BJP)
Leader of Opposition: Jitendra Choudary (CPM)
Tipra Motha Party: Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma
Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura: Prem Kumar Reang
Indian National Congress (INC): Birajit Sinha
Politics:
The politics of Tripura, a state in Northeast India, are primarily shaped by several key parties: the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), the Indian National Congress (INC), the Tipra Motha Party, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), and the Trinamool Congress (TMC). As of 2020, the BJP is the ruling party in the state’s legislative assembly and secured victories in both of Tripura’s parliamentary constituencies during the 2019 Indian general election.
Constituencies:
Tripura is represented in the Indian Parliament by two members in the Lok Sabha (the lower house) and one member in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house). At the local level, Panchayats (local self-governments) are elected through local body elections to oversee governance in many villages. Additionally, Tripura has a distinctive tribal self-governance institution known as the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. This council manages various aspects of local administration in 527 villages with a significant concentration of scheduled tribes. The state’s legislative assembly is composed of 60 constituencies.
Lok Sabha:
- 1952: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1957: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1962: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1967: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1971: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1977: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1980: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1984: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1989: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1991: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1996: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1998: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1999: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2004: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2009: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2014: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Rajya Sabha:
- 1952: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1958: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1964: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1969: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1976: Indian National Congress (INC)
- 1982: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1988: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 1994: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2000: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2006: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2012: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
- 2018: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Elections:
The main political parties in Tripura include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Indian National Congress(INC), the All India Trinamool Congress, and the Tipra Motha Party, along with regional parties such as the Tripura Motha Party (TMP) and the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT).
Until 1977, the Indian National Congress governed the state. The Left Front held power from 1978 to 1988 and then again from 1993 to 2018. From 1988 to 1993, the Congress and Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti formed a ruling coalition. In the 2013 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, the Left Front won 50 out of 60 seats. In the 2014 Indian general election, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won both parliamentary seats from Tripura.
However, the 2018 assembly election marked a significant shift in Tripura’s political landscape. The BJP, in coalition with the IPFT, won 44 out of 60 seats, ending the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s uninterrupted twenty-five-year rule. The CPI(M) secured only 16 seats, and the Indian National Congress faced substantial losses in all constituencies.