Agartala (Tripura) [India], August 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda who is on a visit to Tripura chaired the state office bearers meeting in Agartala on Sunday.

Agartala Mar 31 PTI Tripura BJP president Dr Manik Saha was elected to the states lone Rajya Sabha seat on Thursday Chief Electoral Officer Gitte Kirankumar Dinkarrao saidManik Saha polled 40 votes while his rival candidate CPIM nominee Bhanu Lal Saha bagged 15An MLA of the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura IPFT a constituent of the ruling BJP-led coalition did not vote Four seats of the 60-member Tripura assembly are now vacantMLAs take part in the Rajya Sabha poll as members of the Upper House of Parliament are elected by legislators in state assemblies It is an election through proportional representationThe Rajya Sabha election was held in a peaceful manner The result was declared after getting permission from the Election Commission Dr Manik Saha won 40-15 Dinkarrao saidAs expected BJP-IPFT nominee Manik Saha won the election Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty saidBarring one MLA of the IPFT all 40 legislators of BJP-IPFT alliance supported him There was no cross-voting he saidChief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb congratulated Manik Saha for being elected as the first BJP Rajya Sabha MP from TripuraI believe you will work sincerely in the Upper House of Parliament for the welfare of the people of Tripura under the guidance of Honourable PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji Deb said in a social media postMainak Saha who quit the Congress and joined the BJP in 2016 was made the partys state president in 2020 He had replaced Biplab Kumar Deb who had led the saffron party to a phenomenal victory in the 2018 Assembly elections ending a 25-year-old Communist ruleCPIM candidate Bhanu Lal Saha is an MLA and a former finance minister of the state The Left Front currently has 15 MLAs in the Tripura assembly while the ruling BJP has a strength of 33 and its ally IPFT has eightIPFT legislator Brishaketu Debbarma who did not vote in the Rajya Sabha election reportedly joined the Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance TIPRA Motha BJP legislators Sudip Roy Barman and Asish Saha resigned from the assembly and gave up their memberships of the party in February They later joined the Congress Speaker Ratan Chakraborty in January disqualified BJP MLA Ashish Das who has joined the Trinamool Congress while CPIM legislator Ramendra Chandra Debnath died recently The tenure of incumbent Rajya Sabha MP from Tripura Jharna Das Baidya will expire on April 2 PTI PS BDC NN NN

Agartala Mar 25 PTI The Tripura police have registered an FIR against a person who threatened a BJP MLA with dire consequences for demanding that all madrasas in the state be shut down as they produce terrorists and anti-social elements an official said on FridayA video that has gone viral on social media showed a man in combat dress threatening Shambu Lal Chakma the BJP legislator of Chawmanu constituency in Dhalai district that he will be stabbed to death for making that demandAn FIR was lodged against the person The police have found his social media account Investigations are on Dhalai Superintendent of Police Ramesh Yadav saidA local BJP leader had lodged a complaint with the police after the video surfaced on social mediaWhile speaking during the Budget discussion in the Assembly on March 22 Chakma had said madrasas are not producing doctors or engineers but terrorists and anti-social elements He urged Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb to shut down all madrasas in the stateTripura BJP vice-president Rajib Bhattacharjee demanded immediate arrest of the person who threatened the party MLA PTI PS NN NN

New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): Tripura Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Manik Saha has been chosen as the party candidate for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections, said the BJP.

Agartala Mar 18 PTI The opposition CPIM in Tripura slammed the state Budget for 2022-23 fiscal on Friday claiming that the Biplab Kumar Deb government did not fulfil the promises made by the BJP before the Assembly election in 2018 Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma on Thursday presented a Rs 26893-crore budget for 2022-23 fiscal in the assembly without proposing any new tax while emphasising on development of infrastructure industries and social sector It was the last Budget of the present government People were eagerly waiting for big announcements that will fulfil the promises made in the BJPs vision document unveiled before the 2018 Assembly elections We saw there was no effort to meet the peoples aspirations CPIM state secretary Jitendra Chowdhury told a press conference Chowdhury alleged that the Budget has not made it clear from where funds will come to meet the expenditure He also claimed there is nothing for the government employees who were hoping to get the pay package as per the 7th Central Pay Commission recommendations as promised in the vision document Earlier government employees used to get dearness allowance or dearness relief twice a year but this tradition has been changed in the BJP era the CPIM leader said In the Budget the finance minister said social pension will be hiked for the poor people from Rs 1000 to Rs 2000 But the BJP had declared in 2018 that it would be enhanced in the first cabinet meeting if the party is voted to power Chowdhury said The government should implement it from March 2018 he said Biplab Kumar Deb had on March 9 2018 taken oath as the chief minister of Tripura after the BJP ended the 25-year rule of the CPIM-led Left Front Referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shahs announcement here earlier this month that 33 per cent of government jobs will be reserved for women in Tripura Chowdhury claimed that it is not a big deal as the state administration has virtually stopped new recruitments Amit Shah-ji visited the state to repair the damage that the party has suffered after two BJP MLAs resigned and another was disqualified the CPIM leader said BJP legislators Sudip Roy Barman and Asish Saha resigned from the Tripura assembly and gave up the membership of the party in February They later joined the Congress Tripura Speaker Ratan Chakraborty in January disqualified BJP MLA Ashish Das who has joined the Trinamool Congress The Assembly election is due in the state in 2023 PTI PS NN NN

Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 27 (ANI): The Congress on Sunday hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura claiming that the government was trying to build a narrative against the grand old party by playing the victim card a day after clashes broke out in the capital city Agartala.

Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 8 (ANI): Tripura unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that the resignation of two rebel MLAs was nothing unexpected for the party, adding that the ruling BJP in the state still enjoys a comfortable majority.

Kolkata: Tripura Police on Sunday arrested actor and Trinamool Congress leader Saayoni Ghosh on charges of promoting enmity between people, attempt to murder, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy.An FIR was also registered against her at the East Agartala Police Station for allegedly disturbing a municipal poll rally of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb at Ashram Chowmuhani area here on Saturday. On the charges of trying to promote enmity between group of people and attempt to murder, police said that they have found “preliminary evidence”   Speaking to reporters, West Tripura Additional SP Jagadish Reddy said: “We received a complaint against her and summoned her for interrogation.

Agartala (Tripura) [India], November 3 (ANI): Tripura Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice-President Rajib Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said that MLA Ashish Das's defection to Trinamool Congress (TMC) would have no impact on the party.

Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee and Tripura BJP MLA Ashis Das joined the Trinamool Congress in Tripura today, at a rally being held by Abhishek Banerjee. The court allowed the rally after it was blocked thrice earlier by the state. #WestBengal #MamataBanerjee #TMC #BJP #Tripura #AbhishekBanerjee #Vaccine #Coronavirus