TRIPURA CM BIPLAB DEB RESIGNS

(The Quiver): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has resigned. He submitted his resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya on Saturday.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigns.

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The new chief minister of the state will be elected at a meeting of the BJP’s MLAs. Union minister Bhupender Yadav and BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde have been made observers for the BJP’s legislature party meet.

Union Minister & BJP leader Bhupender Yadav & BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde are in Tripura as the central observers. The new leader who will replace Biplab Kumar Deb will be announced this evening.
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Mr. Deb was elected as the northeastern state’s first Chief Minister from BJP. The party unseated 25-year-old regime of the Left Front in the 2018 Assembly elections, in a partnership with the Indigenous People’s Front of Twipra (IPFT).

With barely a year left for Assembly elections, the BJP on Friday announced a rejig in the ranks of the party and its frontal organisations. Senior tribal leader Bikash Debbarma was made the president of the party’s ST Morcha. Senior tribal leader Bikash Debbarma was made the president of the party’s ST Morcha.