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Manik Saha sworn-in as new Tripura CM
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 May, 2022
Tripura BJP President Manik Saha was sworn-in on Sunday as the 12th
Chief Minister of the state just a day after Biplab Kumar Deb resigned
from the top post.
The 69-year-old dental
surgeon-turned-politician was administered the oath of office by
Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya during a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here.
No other MLAs from the BJP or its ally, the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), took oath on Sunday.
Main
opposition CPI-M led Left Front, Congress and other political parties
boycotted the swearing-in-ceremony alleging large scale political
attacks. Officials of the Raj Bhavan said that nine MLAs of the BJP and
two legislators of its ally IPFT would take the oath on Monday. The
strength of the Tripura council of ministry is 12.
A former
badminton player of repute, Saha, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha
from the lone seat in Tripura on March 31, has to be elected to the
state Assembly within the next six months.
Father of two
daughters, Saha, who is also a professor at the Tripura Medical College
and B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Teaching Hospital in Agartala as well as the
President of the Tripura Cricket Association, joined the BJP in 2015 and
became the state party president in 2021.
The election to the 60-member Tripura Assembly is due in January-February 2023.
Since
May 2019, Tripura had witnessed waves of revolt by dissident BJP MLAs
and leaders against Deb, who also subsequently announced to obtain a
public mandate by calling a public meeting. The move was later cancelled
following the intervention of the central leaders.
Deb, 51,
became the Chief Minister on March 9, 2018, after the BJP-IPFT alliance
came to power by defeating the Left Front in the Assembly elections,
ending the latter's 25-year rule.
Amid open resentment by a
section of the BJP MLAs and leaders, the cabinet expansion took place on
August 31 last year, which saw the induction of three ministers. Three
BJP MLAs, Sudip Roy Barman (also former minister), Ashis Kumar Saha,
Ashis Das, quit the party following open differences with Deb.
Roy Barman and Saha joined the Congress in February this year while Das joined Trinamool Congress last year.
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