The 1988

Tripura Legislative Assembly The Tripura Legislative Assembly or Tripura Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tripura, with 60 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The present Assembly is located in Gurkhabasti. Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala ser ...

election took place in a single phase on 2 February 1988 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India. More than 100 individuals were killed in election-related violence in the state of Tripura. Government and TNV representatives agreed to a cessation of military hostilities on August 12, 1988. Several thousand individuals were killed, and some 200,000 individuals were displaced during the conflict.

Highlights

Election to the

were held on February 2, 1988. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.

Participating Political Parties

National Parties

* BJP (

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) * CPI (

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

) * CPM (

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) * INC (

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

) * JNP (

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

)

State Parties

* FBL (

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) * RSP ( Revolutionary Socialist Party) * TUS (

Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti ("Tripura Tribal Youth Association") was a political party in the Indian state of Tripura from 1977–2001. During 1988-93, the Indian National Congress formed a coalition government with the TUJS at the Tripura Legisl ...

)

No. of constituencies

Electors

Performance of women candidates

Result

Constituency wise winners

Government formation

(INC) –

(TUJS) coalition won 30 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The

CPI-M The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nat ...

won 28 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar formed a INC-TUJS coalition government on February 5, 1988. On February 17, 1992, the eight members of the Tripura Tribal Youth League (

-TUJS), who were part of the governing coalition in the 60-seat Legislative Assembly, resigned in protest over more than 500 starvation deaths in tribal areas in recent months. Chief Minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar resigned on February 19, 1992, and

Samir Ranjan Barman Samir Ranjan Barman is an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 19 February 1992 to 10 March 1993 as a member of the Indian National Congress. He is the father of the current legislator from Agartala Constituency ...

was sworn in as Chief Minister of an INC-TUJS coalition government on February 20, 1992. Chief Minister

resigned on February 27, 1993, and the state of Tripura was placed under

president's rule In India, President's rule is the suspension of state government and imposition of direct Union government rule in a state. Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, if a state government is unable to function according to Constitutional ...

from March 11, 1993 to April 10, 1993.

References

{{Tripura elections State Assembly elections in Tripura

Tripura Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...