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CPM had won both the seats in 2014 and have retained its sitting MPs Sankar Prasad Datta in Tripura West and Jitendra Choudhury in Tripura East. "IPFT would have settled for a seat-sharing deal had BJP given it the Tripura East seat. For Tripura West constituency, BJP asked us not to field our candidate. After we objected, BJP gave us one option that both parties will put up their candidates for a friendly contest in Tripura East. GUWAHATI: The NDA is heading for a split in Tripura following disputes between partners BJP and Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a tribal organization, over sharing the state's two Lok Sabha seats..