Saffron is in demand in red bastion this holi season in Tripura

Guwahati, February 28, 2018:

Does the preference of any particular color hold any 'political' meaning? In Left-ruled Tripura, it does, especially during Holi and election season.

While the festival of colours will start from March 1, the results of Tripura Assembly elections 2018, held on February 18, will be out on March 3. Thus "colors" are playing a big role in Tripura. In the last few days, the main wholesale market selling various colours in Agartala is witnessing an unprecedented demand for "saffron" color.

While color red too is popular, but the sudden change of preference of color from red to saffron is sending some sort of "political" message, feel poll pundits.

Saffron is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is hoping to defeat the ruling Left Front government in the state. Red, as we all know, is the color that defines Left or Communist parties.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))-led Left Front government is in power in the state for the last 25 years.

A wholesale trader of gulal said that there was a massive demand for colors, especially saffron, this Holi festival. Like Holi revelers, who are buying saffron colors in bulk, two exit polls, the results of which were announced on Tuesday, stated that the BJP-Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) alliance is going to come to power in Tripura by defeating the Manik Sarkar government.