AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN):Significantly, NOTA has registered 23,738 entry in this election, which counts about 1.2 percent of total casting of votes in just concluded Loksabha poll in Tripura.
At national figure NOTA registered 53,31,733 votes, which is about 1.1 percent of the total casting. After a long fight, ECI introduced NOTA in the EVM last year onwards in the elections though it is not influence the result.

 However, in terms of vote share CPI-M registered 64.1 percent, Congress registered 15.3 percent, Trinamool registered 9.5 percent and BJP registered 5.7 percent of the total vote cast in Tripura.

Manik appears to be sole sentinel of CPI-M

AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Leaving aside the left front’s main architects in West Bengal and Kerala, veteran Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar shines as sole sentinel of Left Front’s last bastion in crucial 2014 Loksabha poll.

By assuring the massive victory of CPI-M candidates of both the Loksabha seats in Tripura with record margin, 66 –years old Manik Sarkar triumph again in the country.

After assuming office as Chief Minister in March 1998, Manik Sarkar led the party in 16 major elections and in all the occasions, the party secured a brilliant victory pushing off the opposition to minority from state assembly to village Panchayats.

CPI-M leaders in Tripura believe Manik Sarkar has already probe his political excellence to lead the party for re-gaining the lost ground across India.