With loss in Tripura, Left is left with Kerala only

International Desk: Of all the three Northeast states of Indian that went to polls last month, Tripura sprang a surprise today by changing its political colour from red to saffron, reports indiatoday.in on Saturday.

The Left Front has lost its Northeastern bastion to the BJP. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar will move out after staying in power for four terms in Tripura.

With the loss in Tripura, the Left Front is now left with power in Kerala only. It had lost West Bengal to Trinamool Congress in 2011 and failed to put up a respectable performance in 2016.

The decline of the Left Front has been steady in the last ten years. The Left Front came closest to power at Centre in 1996, when the then West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu was offered to lead a coalition government, but the CPI-M had then decided against the proposal.

Agencies


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