Guwahati, Mar 01: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies will return to power in Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland.
Meghalaya and Nagaland went to assembly polls on Monday and Tripura on February 16. The counting of votes will take place on Thursday.
“There is no tension. Our governments will be formed in all three states. Earlier, too, NDA partners formed governments in these states…it will happen again,” Sarma.
The BJP came to power in Tripura for the first time in 2018 in alliance with the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura. In Nagaland, the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and BJP contested the polls together.
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In Meghalaya, BJP won two seats in 2018. It was part of the National People’s Party-led coalition government led by the state’s National People’s Party. Both parties ran independently in the 2023 election.
Sarma said the status quo will continue. “Tripura will have a BJP chief minister. In Nagaland, our ally partner [NDPP] will lead. The decision on Meghalaya will depend on how many seats we get.”
The BJP and its allies held the edge in Nagaland and Tripura, but a hung assembly was a distinct possibility in Meghalaya, exit polls predicted on Monday.
