AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): Newly elected members of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) took oath at Khumlwung on May 17,Sunday. All the nominated members were administered the official oath by the State’s Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer Abhishek Singh at the headquarters of Autonomous District Council (ADC). Radhacharan Debbarma, who was nominated as the Chief Executive Member (CEM) for the first time replacing Ranjit Debbarma, said that more power to TTAADC would be foremost criteria of the Left front govt. here. “This time our priority shall be to maintain the prevailing peaceful condition in the State and maintain the pace of development activities going on throughout the State,” noted Radhacharan Debbarma, CEM, ADC. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI -M)) led Left Front created electoral history by winning all the 28 seats that went to polls in Tripura on May 3. However, it is to be mentioned here that the maiden session of the seventh council of Tripura Autonomous District Council was held on 2015 May 17 after administering oath of office to all eight councilors headed by Chief Executive Member (CEM) Radhacharan Debbarma and Ranjit Debbarma as Chairman of ADC.

It is worthy to mention here that like 2010 ADC poll this time also the opposition Congress and Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura could not make it to the ADC and has failed to keep any challenge before the ruling CPI-M. Besides, unlike last election to TTAADC, the IPFT and newly emerged BJP has been distant to second position. 

However, despite bearing the palm in the TTAADC election 2015, there are certain aspects which worries the triumphant Left Front in Tripura.

In the last TTAADC election 2010, CPI-M’s vote percentage was 63. Astonishingly, it has now come down to 9%. Though opposition parties in the likes of IPFT and BJP has failed to carry off the palm, yet they have opened their accounts according to the vote percentage.

IPFT has secured the second position in 16 constituencies. This clearly evinces that IPFT has emerged as the main Opposition in TTAADC. On the other hand, BJP has fared well in the North by securing the second position.

The ruling Left Front in Tripura has won all 28 elected seats in polls to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) and grabbed 54.21 percent of all the votes polled. The state’s main opposition Congress, meanwhile, polled the least percentage of votes at just 5.49 percent, with the BJP polling only slightly better by polling 7.87 percent of the total votes. Its successes were mainly restricted to areas close to the state’s border with Assam, however. The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT), meanwhile, polled 10.77 percent of the votes, taking third place as regards to votes polled.

The CPM led by CM Manik Sarkar has long dismissed the idea of a separate state for tribals in the North-East’s smallest state.Tripura has seen ethnic riots and armed tribal groups demanding autonomy since the 1970s, although much of it has greatly diminished in the past decade.

The TTAADC — established by the Left Front in the early 1980s covers two-thirds of the state’s territory, most of it hills and forests.