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Last Update: March 08, 2023, 12:43 pm IST
Agartala (including Jogendranagar), India
BJP’s Professor (Dr) Manik Saha took oath as the Chief Minister of Tripura in Agartala (Image/PTI)
In the recently held assembly elections in Tripura, the BJP won 32 seats in the 60-member House, while its ally IPFT managed to secure one seat.
BJP leader Manik Saha was on Wednesday sworn in as the chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura for his second term. Dignitaries present on the occasion included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda as well as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Along with Saha, Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya also administered the oath to eight more ministers, including Ratan Lal Nath, Pranjit Singha Roy, Sanatan Chakma, Tinku Roy and Bikash Debbarma.
In the recently held assembly elections in Tripura, the BJP won 32 seats in the 60-member House, while its ally IPFT managed to secure one seat.
Seventy-year-old dentist-turned-politician Manik Saha Manik Saha, who led the BJP to continuous power in Tripura in the 2023 Tripura Assembly elections.
Prior to becoming the chief minister, Saha was a Rajya Sabha MP and the party’s chief in the state.
Saha was earlier slated to replace Biplab Kumar Deb as chief minister in 2022, in a brand renewal exercise after it was found that his popularity ratings were falling due to the poor law and order situation in Tripura’s hinterland.
Saha, a dental surgeon, had joined the BJP in 2016 after quitting the Congress. He was made the party chief in 2020 and was elected to the Rajya Sabha in March 2022. Manik Saha will take oath as the chief minister of the northeastern state for the second time on Wednesday, following the BJP’s victory in the recently held Tripura assembly elections.
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