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The BJP returned to power in Tripura on Thursday with a reduced tally of 32 seats and one of the leaders missing from its list was Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma, who was one of the key ministers in the previous government and was viewed as having achieved significant success in the departments of finance, power, and rural development...
But his perceived success did not stop the key BJP leader from losing to his TIPRA Motha rival Subodh Deb Barma in Charilam constituency in Tripura West by 858 votes..
This was a stunning reversal from five years ago when he won the ST-reserved seat by the biggest margin of the election, 26,580 votes with 89.33 per cent vote share..
Belonging to the erstwhile Tripura royal family, Dev Varma has also been a longtime BJP loyalist, having been part of it much before it even became a player in the state..
While he lost all three times, Dev Varma secured 29 per cent of the votes, the highest as far as the BJP was concerned in Tripura back then...
