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CPI(M) leader Manik Sarkar casted his vote at a polling booth during the Tripura Assembly elections, in Agartala, on Feb. 16, 2023..
The sharp dip in the vote share of the CPI(M) in the Tripura Assembly election has raised several questions on its strategy to align with the Congress, which on the other hand has benefited from the alliance...
The vote share of the CPI(M) fell to 24.6% from the 42% in 2018, the sharpest drop among all the political parties in the fray..
Speaking to The Hindu before the election, party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the alliance was finalised not so much as a conscious decision by both the parties to pool their votes, instead it was worked out because of the pressure from below..
The Polit Bureau congratulates the thousands of cadres and workers of the CPI(M) and Left Front who, after braving the repression unleashed on them in the past five years, came forward courageously to conduct the election campaign and to reach out to the people, whom they had been deprived of meeting for a long time, the Polit Bureau said..
