Asking for a reaction to Subal Bhowmik’s statement, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, “Trinamool’s main contestant in Tripura is not BJP and also none of the other parties like Congress, CPI-M, Tipra Motha but NOTA is Trinamool Congress’s main competitor”.

The Congress MP also gave a signal of CPI-M, Congress’s alliance in 2023 poll to defeat BJP and to stop division of anti-BJP votes.