Meghalaya, Tripura poll results today

“We are confident of forming the Government once again. We strongly believe that the people have voted in our favour because of the good work we have done,” Gautam Das, spokesperson of the Left Front said in Agartala on Thursday. If the Left Front wins, it will create a record of sorts, winning four times in a row in the state.

In Meghalaya, however, the Congress has kept its options open for a tie-up with former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma’s NCP in order to form the government. While Chief Minister D D Lapang of the Congress said he is scouting for an alliance partner in the event of falling just short of forming a Government on his own, Sangma claimed he had received feelers from the Congress.

In Tripura, on the other hand, the Left, whose tally had come down from 49 in 1993 to 41 in 1998 and 2003, is hopeful that it would still win even if the number of seats it wins came down further. The Congress-INPT alliance had last time won only 19 seats.

For the Congress, getting 20 seats on its own would in itself be an achievement, though some party leaders think the tally might increase to 25 seats. Even then it would be not possible for the Congress, as there are no smaller parties to form an alliance with in Tripura, barring the Left Front.