Left Front (Tripura)

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Left Front
LeaderJitendra Chaudhury
Founded1970s
Political positionLeft-wing
Tripura Legislative Assembly
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The Left Front is a political alliance in the Indian state of Tripura. The Left Front governed Tripura 1978–1988, and again from 1993 to 2018.[1] The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is the dominant party in the coalition.[1][2] The other members of the Left Front are the Communist Party of India, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the All India Forward Bloc.[3]

History

The Left Front, then consisting of CPI,CPI(M), AIFB and RSP, won a landslide victory in the

Kok Borok language and the creation of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council.[2]

The Left Front won the 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election.[7] On 11 January 1983 a 12-member Left Front cabinet with Nripen Chakraborty as Chief Minister was sworn in.[7]

Ahead of the 1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi charged the Left Front with having failed to contain the Tripura National Volunteers insurgency.[8] The Indian National Congress (I) - TUJS combine won the election.[8] Gandhi declared the entire state as a 'Disturbed Area' and in the tumultuous first 100 days of the Congress(I)-TUJS government cracked down on the Left Front.[8] Over 2,000 Left Front activists were framed in the different cases, arrest warrants issued for 7,000 Left Front activists and CPI(M) and mass organization offices were seized or attacked across the state.[8]

Manik Sarkar became the Chief Minister of Tripura in 1998.[9]

In the 2000 TTAADC election the Left Front lost its majority of the council to the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura.[9] The Left Front regained control over TTAADC in 2005.[10] CPI(M) won 21 out of the 28 seats in the council, CPI 1, RSP and AIFB 1.[10] The remaining 4 seats were won by the National Socialist Party of Tripura, supported by the Left Front.[10]

However, in

Bharatiya Janata Party
became the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura.

Members

Flag Party State Secretary / Chairman
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Jitendra Chaudhury
Communist Party of India Yudhisthir Das
Revolutionary Socialist Party Dipak Deb
All India Forward Bloc Paresh Chandra Sarkar

Electoral history

Election Votes % Seats Notes
2003
41 / 60
2008 9,62,617 51.18
49 / 60
 [a]
2013 11,25,544 51.63
50 / 60
2018 10,43,640 44.35
16 / 60
2023
10 / 60

See also

Notes

  1. ^ AIFB didn't contest along with the Left Front

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-317-66805-3
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  2. ^
    ISBN 978-81-7099-795-5
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  3. ISBN 978-81-7625-647-6
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  4. ^ a b Jyotish Chandra Dutta (1984). An Introduction to the History of Tripura: From Monarchy to Democracy. Book Home. p. 40.
  5. ^ a b Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRIPURA
  6. ISBN 978-81-8069-519-3
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  7. ^
    ISBN 978-81-7835-356-2
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  8. ^
    ISBN 978-81-8324-045-1
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  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-135-35625-5
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  10. ^ a b c People's Democracy. Historic Victory Of The Left Front Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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