Agartala, Jun 18, 2024, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala, June 18: After a landslide victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election in the state of Tripura, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has now set a target for another decisive win in the three-tier Panchayat election, to be held in July this year.

Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarter on Tuesday, the BJP state spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said that a brainstorming meeting was held with the party leaders and workers regarding the ensuing panchayat elections in Tripura. The BJP has set a target to win in all the booths in this panchayat elections, he told reporters.

“This time we mainly focused on the booths, where we could not score well and win. We are eyeing to win on those booths. The meeting also discussed the loopholes in the booths, where we could not perform well,” he said, adding that the party has already started working on the loopholes and weaknesses.

In addition to the panchayat elections, a meeting was also held in the party office on Monday last to review the party’s performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. He said that the meeting was chaired by BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, and State General Secretary (Organization) for Assam and Tripura, Ravindra Raju, with the Ministers and MLAs of the state.

He pointed out the performance of party candidates Biplab Kumar deb and Kriti Devi Debbarman in the Lok Sabha elections and Dipak Majumder in the by-elections and said that the landslide victories signifies that all the workers of our party, starting from the grassroots level, have worked with loyalty and unity.

Providing a detailed figure of the party's performance in Lok Sabha election, Chakraborty said that in the West Parliamentary Constituency, among 1695 booths, BJP won in 1671 booths, while in 1663 booths under the East Parliamentary Constituency, BJP won in 1599 booths.

“The BJP national president JP Nadda and BJP national general secretary (organization) B L Santosh held a virtual meeting with BJP Tripura President on Monday last, where both the central leadership expressed their satisfaction and happiness over the role of the Tripura BJP leaders and workers,” he told reporters.