AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Everything happened as it was expected in the TTAADC election with Left Front sweeping the poll for the second consecutive time. The opposition could not win even a single seat in the hill election owing to the disunity among the opposition political parties here. But even the complete sweep of the ADC election is not making the ruling CPI(M) party happy enough. The decline in vote share in the strong bastion of the lefts is worrying the Melarmath party head office and the party has imposed a hidden ban on the celebration throughout the state.The result of the TTAADC election 2015 showed a 9.59% loss of votes for the ruling combine as compared to its share of 63.8% in the 2010 election. The party thinktanks are analysing the reasons for the decline in votebank overnight and have asked the local units throughout the hill areas of the state to submit explanations for the loss of votes, informs party insiders of melarmath party office of CPI(M) here. The left parties could altogether garner 54.29% of the valid votes to sweep the election and the sudden decline in vote share is the cause of much concern for the left combine specially the CPI(M), which is the big brother of the alliance.The failure in keeping the hill support base intact is being viewed through different angles in the political circle here.

One school of thought believes that a section of the tribals have inclined to the resurgent IPFT and its cause for the sole interest of the tribal population of the state is attracting the latter towards the party.

It may be mentioned here that the tribal based party could win 18.09% of the total valid votes polled in the election improving it’s previous performance of less than a percent of the votes in 2010 TTAADC election. In as many as 16 seats, the IPFT came second with more than 80% of the total opposition votes in its wagon. 

The decline in support of the main opposition Congress in this election is not a big surprise as the party was scattered and least enthusiastic to go to the election and the party candidates losing their deposits in as many as 18 seats only indicates the future of the age old political party of the country in this state.  The Congress could secure mere 5.49% of the valid polled votes compared to its nearly 22% votes in the 2010 TTAADC election.

Another important outcome of the election was the rise in support base of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the hills which won nearly 8% of the total valid votes in the election. The BJP came second in as many as five seats. The rightist party can now think about its bright chances in the 2018  Assembly election with the performance in the hills, which is otherwise considered as the strongest bastion of the leftist parties in the state.     

Though the other tribal based party and Congress’s ally in earlier elections, the INPT somehow could keep its support base almost intact, the rise of the rival IPFT will only make it irrelevant in the coming days feels the political analysts here.

The INPT could secure 10.62% of the total valid votes of this election compared to its 2010 performance of 11.02%. The INPT came second in seven seats pushing back its long time ally Conress to the fifth position in the vote share.