Left Front wins RS seat

Ruling Left Front candidate Matilal Sarkar won the lone Rajya Sabha seat in the state beating his only rival Congress candidate Tapas Dey by 28 votes as some members abstained from voting.

Ruling Left Front candidate Matilal Sarkar won the lone Rajya Sabha seat beating his only rival Congress candidate Tapas Dey by 28 votes on Friday.

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Out of the total 52 votes cast, Sarkar got 40 votes when Dey secured only 12 votes.

One candidates each from CPi-M and Congress did not cast their votes as they were not in Agartala.

All the six members of former poll ally of Congress, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) abstained from voting.

In the sixty- member assembly Left Front has 41 seats, opposition Congress 13 and INPT six.