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Agartala, Dec 1 (PTI) Tripura Minister for Education, Ratan Lal Nath Wednesday said that though Trinamool Congress has claimed that it has secured the second position in terms of votes polled in the recent urban body election in the state, it is CPI-M which has actuually done so.
CPI-M, he said, has secured 18.13 per votes in the November 25 election, while the TMC has won 16.39 per cent votes.
According to the records of the state election commission BJP secured 59.01 per cent votes, followed by CPI-M and then the TMC.
However, in Agartala Municipal Corporation the vote share of BJP was lesser at 57.39 per cent, followed by TMC which won 20.14 per cent votes and CPI-M 16.06 per cent.
On TMC’s claim of securing around 20 per cent votes in the state in just three months of its reaching out to the state, Nath said it had secured 26.4 per cent votes in West Tripura in the 1999 Lok Sabha election where former state chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumder was its candidate.
Rubbishing TMC’s claim of increasing popularity, he said the vote share of BJP has been increasing gradually since the party came to power in Tripura in 2018.