Team News Riveting
Agartala, May 14
In a surprising political development, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb rendered his resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya just a year before the assembly elections.
Rajya Sabha Member and State BJP President Manika Saha has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of Tripura.
The resignation came a day after Deb met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi. It is reported that the local party workers were not happy with the working of Deb. Subsequently, the possibility of anti-incumbency against Deb was not ruled out in the state assembly elections due next year.
The development came a year ahead of the state polls in Tripura. The BJP indicated that it will go to the polls with a fresh face. Deb was BJP’s first Chief Minister of the northeastern state.
Besides in-house problems, the rise of the Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or TIPRA Motha and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the state has also forced the BJP leadership to redesign its strategy.
The Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or TIPRA Motha, a regional political party led by royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, seeks a separate state for the indigenous people of Tripura. TIPRA Motha had succeeded quite effectively to sway the sentiment of the indigenous people and in the next elections the party was going to be determining factor, if its rise was not contained right now by the ruling BJP.
