Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday said that during the long rule of the CPI(M), the communists had turned the janajatis into a ballot box, whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a party that works for the people.
CM Manik Saha said this at a gathering organised by the BJP at the Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan premises in Agartala today.
Today, CM Saha welcomed a total of 5,050 voters from 1,706 families into the BJP.
While addressing the meeting, CM Saha said that for a long time the communists used to start counting from 20 in Assembly elections, as they knew that 20 seats were guaranteed to them because they had made the janajatis a ballot box.
“That is why they used to start counting from 20. But now the communists are scared. We have learned from them. From now on,

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