Asserting that the BJP has a long tradition of maintaining coalition dharma, the party on Thursday said it will continue its alliance with the IPFT in the next Assembly elections, slated early next year. The saffron party and the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) fought the Assembly elections together in 2018 and wrested power from the Left Front. “The BJP pays respect to its allies, the saffron camp never throws out its electoral partners. Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had formed the National Democratic Alliance government… and the NDA still exists”, state party chief Rajib Bhattacharjee told PTI.