The BJP is doing well in the North East. In Meghalaya the Congress is doing well.The left is losing its face and the Charisma of Rahul Gandhi is in question here .
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the BJP’s main strategist in the northeast, says the party has assessed a three on three score as votes are counted in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland today.
“If we win Tripura and if we can regain Nagaland, have a government in Meghalaya, then our expansion in Northeast will be complete, barring Mizoram. Today will be a big day,” Himanta Biswa Sarma told.
Mr Sarma, a former Congressman who joined the BJP in 2015, has been credited with the BJP’s expanding footprint in the northeastern states, beginning with Assam in 2016.
The BJP hopes to end the 20-year run of CPI(M)’s Manik Sarkar in Tripura and wrest Meghalaya from the Congress.
With a hung assembly predicted for Meghalaya, Mr Sarma is already thinking ahead: “I am sure Tripura will have our own majority and Nagaland will have our majority with our allied partner. But in Meghalaya, we have to talk among parties and install the non-Congress government.”
