India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday swept the urban civic body elections in north eastern state of Tripura bagging all the seats of the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation and taking control of several other municipalities.

The opposition Trinamool Congress, which had deployed several of its top leaders for the poll campaign in Tripura for several weeks, and CPI(M) failed to open their account in the Agartala civic body and got just one seat and three seats respectively in a few other municipalities.

Tripura goes to fresh assembly poll in 2023 and TMC is hoping to wrest power in that state.

The saffron party also secured all the wards in the 15-member Khowai Municipal Council, 17-seat Belonia Municipal Council, 15-member Kumarghat Municipal Council and nine-member Sabroom Nagar Panchayat, state election commission officials said.

The party made a clean sweep in the 25-ward Dharmanagar Municipal Council, 15-seat Teliamura Municipal Council and 13-member Amarpur Nagar Panchayat, they said.

Sonamura Nagar Panchayat and Melaghar Nagar Panchayat became opposition less with BJP having won all the 13 seats each. It also bagged the 11-member Jirania Nagar Panchayat.

The BJP secured 12 seats of Ambassa Municipal Council, while TMC and CPI-M won one seat each and another went to an independent candidate.