“I had said that BJP will get seats at a single digit and the statement was not wrong. In maximum seats BJP won with narrow margins”, he said.

Sudip Barman also said in future, it will be taken care that the votes should not be divided like this.

BJP has now 31 MLAs, IPFT 1 and Congress has 3 MLAs and CPI-M 11. Tipra Motha is the second opposition party with 13 Assembly seats.

Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Manikya however said, “If Tipra Motha had not fought in Assembly poll, BJP could get 50 seats’.