Governor SN Arya will administer the oath of office and secrecy to 11 cabinet members in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan on Monday (May 16) at 12 p.m., a day after Manik Saha was sworn in as Tripura Chief Minister.
According to an ANI report, nine BJP MLAs and two Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLAs would take oath as Tripura cabinet ministers.
Manik Saha was sworn in as Tripura’s chief minister earlier on Sunday. After Biplab Kumar Deb resigned, the BJP parliamentary party gathering chose him as the legislature party leader on Saturday in the presence of Central observers.
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According to sources, all of the Biplab Kumar Deb government ministers would be included in the following ministry, except IPFT’s Mewar Kumar Jamatia.
A breach has lately surfaced between Jamatia, the Biplab Kumar Deb government’s minister for tribal welfare, and NC Debbarma, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura leader.
IPFT MLA Prem Kumar Reang was allegedly admitted into the new government, while Rampada Jamatia, a renowned tribal leader of the BJP, was added to the list of cabinet members.
“Jishnu Dev Varma, NC Debbarma (IPFT), Ratan Lal Nath, Pranajit Singha Roy, Manoj Kanti Deb, Santana Chakma, Ram Prasad Paul, Bhagaban Das, Sushanta Chowdhury, Rampada Jamatia, and Prem Kumar Reang (IPFT) will take oath as the state’s cabinet ministers tomorrow,” the new CM is said to have stated in a
A year before the Assembly elections, the BJP chose to alter the state’s leadership by replacing Biplab Kumar Deb with Saha as Chief Minister.
After Manik Saha was sworn in as Tripura’s new Chief Minister, the BJP has gone back to its old strategy of altering the face of the state to combat anti-incumbency.
In March of this year, Manik Saha, who joined the BJP in 2016 after leaving the Congress, was elected to the Rajya Sabha.
The BJP’s Tripura branch was taken aback by Manik Saha’s selection as chief minister, given that he was just elected to the Rajya Sabha two months ago from a single seat. Saha is the state’s chief minister and a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Notably, the state is expected to hold Assembly elections in March of next year.
