CPI(M) terms Tripura victory as rejection of UPA policies

Congratulating all party workers on the victory, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said with this victory, the Left Front has achieved a hat-trick of wins in three states -- Tripura, West Bengal and Kerala.

"The economic policies being followed by the Congress-led government at the Centre has been rejected by the people of Tripura," he said.

Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechuri, said "where we are in power, anti-incumbency does not work. In fact what works is pro-incumbency and that is it. And this is precisely the message people are continuously giving".

In a statement, CPI(M) Central Committee congratulated the people of Tripura for "creating history" by electing the Left Front for the fourth time.

"Due to the outstanding record of the Left Front government, all sections of the working people, tribal and non-tribal and even Congress sympathisers have supported the party.

"The people have rejected the opportunist alliance of the Congress with the extremist INPT," the statement said.