AGARTALA: Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday took oath as the chief minister of the first BJP government in Tripura ending the 25-year rule of the Left Front. Governor Tathagata Roy administered the oath of office and secrecy to Deb at a function at the sprawling Assam Rifles ground which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Jishnu Deb Burman of the BJP was sworn in as the deputy chief minister. Deb Burman is yet to be elected as an MLA as polling in his Charilam (Scheduled Tribe) constituency was postponed due to the death of the CPI(M) candidate. The election to the seat is scheduled to be held on March 12. PM @narendramodi attends the oath taking ceremony of the Council of Ministers of the Tripura Government in Agartala. https://t.co/99f897uSvY PIB India (@PIB_India) 1520585176000 Seven other ministers five from the BJP and two from the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura(IPFT) a BJP ally including its chief N C Debburman also took oath as ministers. Ratan Lal Nath Sudip Roy Nurman Pranajit Singha Roy Manoj Kanti Deb and the lone woman in the government Santana Chakma are from the saffron party. Apart from N C Debburman IPFT general secretary Mevar Kumar Jamatiya was the other minister from his party. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leaders L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were present at the swearing-in ceremony. Chief ministers of BJP-ruled states - Vijay Rupani (Gujarat) Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh) Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam) and Raghubar Das (Jharkhand) were among others who attended the function. Outgoing Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar also attended the event. Giant posters bearing images of Modi and Shah dominated the landscape in Agartala. From the airport to the venue BJP flags lined up both sides of the street as party workers wearing saffron colour clothes celebrated in the streets. Security was heightened in the capital city as the prime minister and many other dignitaries attended the ceremony. A 100-ft-long stage was erected for the big function. This is a big day for us as it marks a political transition for the state. The victory has been made possible by the development work of Modiji that has inspired our workers in Tripura to work for a change BJP general secretary Ram Madhav told PTI here. The alliance had won the Assembly elections with a two-thirds majority in the 60-member House. The BJP had bagged 35 seats and the IPFT eight of the 59 seats that went to polls. Forty-eight-year-old Deb had staked claim before the governor on March 6 to form the government. The governor had then invited him to do so. Deb a long-time RSS volunteer has been largely credited with the BJP s turnaround in the state. Read this story in Marathi
Biplab Kumar Deb a gym instructor set to be the new Tripura chief minister ran the headlines on television channels and news websites as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended the 25-year rule of the Left Front in Tripura when the counting of votes took place on Saturday. Since then Deb 48 has spent at least some minutes in most of his interviews to the media clarifying that he has never been a gym instructor. 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ALSO READ Tripura will be the 20th state to be ruled by BJP in India says Amit Shah Tripura Assembly election 2018: Total voter turnout stands at 74% says EC Biplab Kumar Deb to be next Tripura CM Jishnu Debbarma his deputy Karnataka polls: Amit Shah says Siddaramaiah s boat is going to sink soon Tripura elections 2018: Modi says Cong CPI-M have secret pact - 10 points span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 BJP President Amit Shah and senior party leaders arrived here on Thursday ahead of formation of a BJP-led government in Tripura on Friday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed party sources said here. Apart from Modi a host of Central ministers and leaders and Chief Ministers of several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states would attend the swearing-in-ceremony of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and his Council of Ministers. BJP s Tripura Pradesh Vice President Subal Bhowmik told IANS that Amit Shah BJP s National General Secretary Ram Madhav General Secretary (Organisation) Ajay Jamwal and Assam minister and Tripura election-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma among other leaders held a series of meetings with the state leaders to select the ministers assembly Speaker Deputy Speaker and other important functionaries . He said that Sarma who is the convenor of the BJP-led anti-Congress alliance North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) on Wednesday held a meeting here with the saffron party s electoral ally IPFT (Indigenous People s Front of Tripura) and returned to Guwahati. IPFT President Narendra Chandra Debbarma said the party has demanded four ministerial berths from the BJP and we have discussed with Sarma and other leaders accordingly . We are yet to confirm how many ministerial berths would be offered to us. Discussions are still on Debbarma told IANS. Chief Minister-designate Deb announced on Tuesday that the party s tribal leader Jishnu Debbarma will be Deputy Chief Minister. Tripura s royal family scion Jishnu Debbarma is the BJP nominee for Charilam assembly constituency (reserved for tribals) where election was countermanded following the death of the Communist Party of India-Marxist candidate and it would be held on Monday. The BJP and the IPFT swept the February 18 polls winning 43 of the 59 seats. The BJP secured 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly and the IPFT a tribal-based party eight. The CPI-M got 16 seats while the Left Front partners -- Communist Party of India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party -- besides once main opposition Congress drew blank. A non-Left government would assume office on Friday for the first time in a quarter of a century. BJP s Bhowmik also said that in the Deb-led government there would be representation of woman youth leaders of tribals and Scheduled Castes and other backward communities. Meanwhile all the outgoing ministers including Chief Minister Manik Sarkar are leaving their official residences and checking into MLA hostel party offices and rented houses. West Tripura District Magistrate Milind Ramteke and West District Police chief Abhijit Saptarshi are supervising the administrative and security arrangements for the swearing-in-ceremony of the new BJP government at the Assam Rifles ground. People would attend the swearing-in-ceremony from all across the state. In view of the possible arrival of the Prime Minister and other VVIPs in Friday s swearing-in-ceremony elaborate security arrangements are being put in place Saptarshi told the media.
Agartala: Former RSS volunteer and gym instructor Biplab Kumar Deb was elected as the leader of the Tripura House by the BJP legislature party on Tuesday. He will be sworn in - with PM Narendra Modi being present - as the 10th chief minister of the state and the fourth BJP CM in the region at a grand function at Agartala on March 9. The BJP legislators also elected party s tribal leader and a scion of the royal family Jishnu Dev Varma as the deputy chief minister. The 59-year-old Dev Varma is however yet to be elected as the polls in his Charilam constituency has been deferred till March 12 following death of the CPM candidate. He is the richest among all the candidates who were in the fray. Soon after their election Deb and Dev Varma drove to Raj Bhavan where they staked claim to form government before governor Tathagata Roy. BJP has filled up the two top posts of the cabinet with its own men leaving its ally Indigenous People s Front of Tripura fuming. The IPFT-NC was promised the post of deputy chief minister by BJP when the pre-poll agreement was signed. Their president NC Debbarma told TOI that he is meeting Himanta Biswa Sarma at Agartala on Wednesday to resolve all issues including that of the post of the deputy CM. There is no question of being satisfied or dissatisfied. There are a number of issues that need to be resolved - the issue of deputy CM the number of berths and the portfolio that we will get. After that if we have reason to believe that we have not been given due importance we will have to consider other options. One way out is offering an outside support to BJP or we may not even be a part of the government Debbarma said. The state council of ministers is limited to 12 and with two top posts already filled up there will be 10 more seats to be distributed between the two allies. Debbarma said he is expecting a minimum of three berths. BJP has carried out a balancing act by having a Bengali as the CM and a tribal as his deputy. It has thus ensured that it will form government on its own terms without support from its ally. The saffron party has 35 MLAs and is comfortably placed to have a majority on its own. BJP observer Sunil Deodhar told TOI that BJP has not ignored IPFT-NC and they will be taken care of when berths and portfolios are distributed. When asked if keeping the posts of CM and deputy CM to itself was a deliberate move Deodhar said We have to take into consideration the voting pattern. The tribal population threw out CPM and voted for us. Of the 11 seats we contested we have won nine and after election in Charilam our strength will be 10. We have to respect the mandate of tribal voters. Moreover our tribal MLAs are more than in the IPFT (8). Deb s swearing-in will take placeat the Assam Rifles ground at Agartala. After Assam this is the second biggest win in the region for the saffron party and BJP wants a repeat of the grand affair as was the case when Sarbananda Sonowal was sworn-in a couple of years back.
GUWAHATI: BJP state president Biplab Kumar Deb was on Tuesday elected the new chief minister of Tripura. The party s tribal leader Jishnu Devvarma will be his deputy. Union minister Nitin Gadkari who attended the meeting of BJP legislature party said Biplab Kumar Deb will be the new chief minister and Jishnu Devvarma the deputy chief minister. The first BJP government in Tripura will be sworn in on Friday. Deb later met governor Tathagata Roy and staked his claim to form the government. A former RSS volunteer Deb said we will provide good governance. Jishnu Devvarma is the scion of Tripura s royal family. In related news from the state police arrested a person in connection with the razing of Vladimir Lenin s statue in Belonia. One Tuesday CPM claimed another statue of Lenin was brought down in Sabroom. In an unusual tweet Tripura governor seemed to justify the act: What one democratically elected government can do another democratically-elected government can undo. And vice versa.
Agartala: The Left Front leaders will boycott the swearing-in of the BJP-led government spearheaded by Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday to protest large-scale violence in Tripura after the Assembly elections Left leaders said on Thursday.However outgoing Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and elected leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) will attend the ceremony where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah would be present.Left Front Convenor Bijan Dhar said that since the declaration of Assembly election results on Saturday around 400 offices of the Left parties and frontal organisations were attacked 85 party offices burnt down 315 offices of various Left parties and frontal organisations were forcibly occupied 1 704 houses belonging to Left members and supporters attacked and around 200 houses set on fire. Left front said that 400 of its offices were attacked after election results were announced in TripuraHe claimed that 290 shops owned by Left members and supporters were burnt down 10 rubber gardens destroyed over 600 Left members and supporters assaulted badly 10 vehicles damaged. This had forced thousands of persons to take refuge elsewhere in the state.A Left Front delegation led by CPM Central Committee member Gautam Das on Thursday met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sriram Taranikanti and demanded deferment of polls in Charilam constituency (Reserved-Tribal) where election could not be held on February 18 after the death of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) candidate.The Left leaders claimed that there is no conducive environment to hold polls in Charilam in western Tripura.Mr Das said the CPM delegation submitted a detailed account of what he called a reign of terror unleashed by the workers of BJP and its ally IPFT (Indigenous People s Front of Tripura). More than 11 permanent party offices and two district committee offices of CPM and RSP (Revolutionary Socialist Party) were burnt down many trade union offices forcibly occupied in Charilam area and CPI-M candidate Palash Debbarma fled from the area to save his life Mr Das later told the media.He said around 60 CPM leaders houses were attacked and 19 party leaders physically assaulted by BJP-IPFT workers whereas all 40 booth offices of CPM in Charilam have been burnt down.Mr Das said several thousand Left Front members and workers had been forcibly evicted from Charilam segment. CommentsTripura s erstwhile royal family s scion Jishnu Debbarma who has been named the Deputy Chief Minister in the new government is the BJP nominee from Charilam. We urge the administration and the BJP leadership to take adequate measures to stop these post-poll violence immediately said Mr Dhar a CPM central committee member.
Among the many names doing the rounds for Tripura s next chief minister is that of Biplab Kumar Deb the 48-year-old state party chief. A former RSS volunteer Deb is the party s face and is credited for its turnaround in the state. Deb who according to some reports used to work as a gym trainer in Delhi was instrumental in acquiring some of the former Congress MLAs last year. He carried out door-to-door campaigns for the party in the run-up to the elections. Deb was handpicked for the job by Sunil Deodhar a former RSS Pracharak BJP s national executive member and the man in-charge of Tripura. A Maharashtrian who had worked in Meghalaya for eight years during his RSS days Deodhar along with Deb expanded BJP s base among the tribals who comprise 32% of the state s http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=235004702 population -- there are 20 (out of 60) reserved seats for Schedule Tribes. We needed a face for the BJP in Tripura and I found no one as smart as Biplab. In early 90s I taught him how to wield a dand (lathi) in the shakha. The BJP Parliamentary Board will meet this evening to decide on the name BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said. Our Parliamentary Board (the party s highest decision making body) will meet in the evening and take a call he said. The BJP Parliamentary Board comprises Prime Minister Narendra Modi party chief Amit Shah Home Minister Rajnath Singh External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari besides a few others. As Deb was not formally declared the chief ministerial candidate before the poll a couple of other names were also doing the rounds as CM probables; these include former Congress heavyweight Sudip Roy Barman and Pratima Bhoumik the party candidate against Manik Sarkar in Dhanpur.
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