Agartala, May 21(PTI): Biplab Kumar Deb, who had stepped down as the Chief Minister of Tripura on May 14, on Saturday asserted that despite resigning from the post, he would not leave Tripura.Deb also declared during a function in Khowai Town Hall in Khowai district, he would start visiting every village to meet the people and prestha pramukh (page incharge) to seek their help in future elections.“There are people who think I am leaving the state as I had quit as Chief Minister but I assure all of you that I am not going anywhere for sure”, he said.Ever since his resignation, Deb has started a strong outreach campaign. In the past three days, he addressed several functions in Sepahijala, Dhalai and Khowai districts.“There is no need to get worried over my resignation. I am not going anywhere and will stay close with the people. Earlier, I used to get prevented (from meeting people) due to protocol. The security coverage will be there, but I will visit each household to materialize the dream of making new Tripura”, he said amidst claps.The former Chief Minister also highlighted the implementation of the welfare schemes. “During my visit, I have seen people getting piped water, living in pucca houses made under PMAY and having toilet facility”, he said.Deb also criticized the erstwhile Left front government for not demonstrating any will to prepare a road map for the development of the state.

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Agartala, May 20 (PTI) Claiming that the former chief minister of Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb, was trying to run a parallel administration in the state, with convoy and choppers still at his service, the opposition Congress on Friday said people should get to know the actual reason for his decision to step down “as the cause furnished by the ruling BJP was hardly convincing”.The BJP was quick to hit back, stating that the grand old party was levelling baseless allegations out of frustration.Addressing a press meet, Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman, the former state health minister, said, People are confused as to who the real chief minister is, Manik Saha or Biplab Kumar Deb. The way Deb is moving around with a convoy of 10-12 vehicles and a chopper, it is actually very confusing.He (Deb) is still occupying the chief minister’s official residence and enjoying all powers and facilities that comes with the post. Roy Barman contended the district magistrates (DMs) and the superintendents of police (SPs) are being forced to receive Deb at airports or helipads, which the protocol does not permit.Deb is not entitled to get the security cover that he did as the chief minister. I request the DGP to immediately withdraw his security cover because he is now merely an MLA, the Congress leader pointed out.Roy Barman, who resigned as MLA and quit the primary member of the BJP in February to join the Congress, also asked the saffron camp to clarify the exact reason behind Deb's sudden resignation.We came to know that Biplab Kumar Deb was asked to quit as chief minister. He was made to rush to Raj Bhavan to tender his resignation on May 14.The explanation that was given by Deb sounds unconvincing! At a programme in Sepahijala district, Deb had said he quit the post to strengthen the organisation. The person (Manik Saha), who appeared to be a failure as the party's state president, has now been made the administrative head of Tripura. People want to know the real reason behind the change of guard, the Congress leader maintained.He added that all illegal activities of Deb during his tenure as the CM would soon be looked into.Lashing out at Roy Barman, Subrata Chakraborty, the state BJP chief spokesperson, said that it is the Ministry of Home Affairs that takes a call on the scale of security provided to a person, and no one else should be interfering in such matters.The Ministry of Home Affairs, after considering threat perceptions, had given Y-plus category security to Deb when he became BJP state president in 2016. Therefore, it is the MHA which will decide what will be done next, no one else,” he said.He asserted that the Congress was pointing fingers at Deb out of frustration and desperation.In BJP, there is no space for words like 'parallel administration', he added.

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Agartala, May 18 (PTI) Three days after Biplab Kumar Deb resigned as chief minister of Tripura, his wife Niti Deb has filed a police complaint, alleging that a fake report attributed to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is being circulated on social media in the name of her husband. In her complaint lodged at West Agartala Police Station on Tuesday, Niti stated that she received a message on WhatsApp on May 16 and its content “was absolutely false, defamatory and full of incitement”. “…On enquiry, I found that the WhatsApp number itself is fake and probably used unauthorisedly. The contents are attributed to Central Intelligence Agency, while on initial personal enquiry, I have grave doubts that the so-called report is actually non-existent and being circulated in the name of the ex-chief minister so as to create sensation and also infringe the security and sovereignty of the nation as a result of a deep rooted conspiracy,” she wrote in the complaint.Niti urged the authorities to take appropriate action against the culprits.Asked about the complaint, West Agartala Police Station officer-in-charge Subrata Chakraborty said, “We have received it. A case has been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. An investigation is underway.”

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Agartala, May 15 (PTI) Altogether eleven MLAs - nine from the BJP and two from the IPFT - will take oath as cabinet ministers of Tripura on Monday. All the ministers of the Biplab Kumar Deb cabinet, barring Mevar Kumar Jamatia of IPFT, have been given a place in the new cabinet, an official said. Governor SN Arya will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the cabinet ministers at a programme in Raj Bhavan in the presence of Chief Minister Manik Saha, former chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb and other dignitaries. “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 cabinet ministers of the state tomorrow, said the new CM in a letter to the governor on Sunday night. Saha was sworn in as the chief minister of Tripura during on Sunday. Former chief minister Biplab Deb, whose sudden resignation a day earlier got Saha the top job, was present at the ceremony along with BJP MLAs and state ministers. Rampada Jamatia, a veteran tribal leader of the BJP, was included in the list of cabinet ministers. IPFT MLA Prem Kumar Reang has also been inducted into the new cabinet.

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Agartala, May 14 (PTI) The move to bring in an ageing dental surgeon Dr Manik Saha as chief minister, replacing the younger Biplab Kumar Deb, is being seen by many here as a `brand renewal exercise’ in this strategic, gateway state in the North East. Saha, a maxillofacial surgeon, who passed out from King George Medical College of Lucknow was a member of the opposition Congress before he joined BJP in 2016 and became the President of BJP's Tripura unit in 2020 after Deb quit that post. A former badminton player of repute in the state, Saha is also the President of Tripura Cricket Association. However, his importance to BJP stems from his clean image and his track record which includes crafting BJP's victory in all thirteen civic bodies in the polls held in November 2021 in Tripura at a time when TMC was engaged in a turf war with the saffron party. Sources said the move comes after an analysis sent by the RSS to BJP’s central leadership indicated there was a need for a change of guard in the party and government. Highly placed sources in the ruling party said the move was required for “immediate strengthening of the party” when the organization was not in good shape ahead of elections to the state assembly due within the next 8-9 months. Party insiders said the situation was unravelling at the ground level workers as a section of young workers, dubbed the ‘bike gang’, were engaged acts of high-handedness, “which was tarnishing the image of the party”. Senior leaders were repeatedly dispatching letters to the central leadership on the issue. However, what was really was giving a nightmare to the party was the sudden rise of the Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or TIPRA Motha, a regional political party led by the royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, seeking a separate state for the indigenous people of Tripura. The party swept the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections held in April last year, winning 18 of the 28 seats over the 'Greater Tipraland' demand in a direct contest with the ruling BJP-IPFT alliance. The statehood demand may affect results in many assembly seats, where tribals hold considerable clout electorally. The TIPRA Motha had completely polarized the state’s politics by raising the demand for separate tribal state and triggered tensions in some mixed pockets of the state, where the tribals account for a third of the population. Party sources said that the BJP is not in a position to counter the rise of TIPRA Motha in tribal dominated areas and the tribal party would sweep in the tribal areas in the next elections. Moreover, the tribal party has threatened to field candidates in at least 25 general seats out of the total forty general seats. With tribals accounting for a significant section of the votes in these seats, it would mean Debbarma’s support could well hold the key to the next elections. BJP’s tribal ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), could not secure a single seat in the last tribal council elections and moreover it recently suffered a vertical split and was divided under the leadership of two incumbent ministers. Under the circumstances, the saffron party decided to strengthen its party organizationally and go in for a rejig of leadership in its tribal wing, Janajati Morcha. Whether the amiable Saha will be able to tackle the diverse issues left behind by his predecessor and steer BJP to a clear victory or whether the rejuvenated Left or the incoming TMC in collaboration with the young royal’s party will be able to snatch a win is of course something which only time will tell.

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Biplab Deb, the Tripura chief minister’s resignation on Saturday may have come as a surprise for the state, but is not a new move for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In state after state, the BJP has changed chief ministers right before the polls. Only last year, the BJP changed CMs in Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Karnataka. ,Deb, 50, became Tripura CM in 2018 by defeating the Manik Sarkar-led Left Front government that had ruled Tripura for 25 years. With one year to go before Assembly elections, and mounting opposition from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, the BJP decided Deb had to go. Also Read | Why did Biplab Kumar Deb resign?,Upon tendering his resignation, Deb said: “I have served the people of Tripura to the best of my capabilities to provide them justice and give them a Left-free state with the ‘marg darshan’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The assembly elections are coming and the party wants be to strengthen the organisation. It is only when the organisation is strong, will there be government.” ,BJP’s strategy to change CMs on the eve of polls is often regarded as an attempt to offset anti-incumbency. In Gujarat, Narendra Modi’s state that goes to polls later this year, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had to resign and make way for Bhupendra Patel in September, 2021. ,Uttarakhand, which went to polls earlier this year and saw the BJP return to power with a majority, also changed CMs months before the polls. Tirath Singh Rawat resigned after just four months in power to make way for Pushkar Singh Dhami who returned with a thumping majority. In Karnataka, the removal of BS Yeddyurappa came with its own set of political challenges. The only southern state with a BJP government, Narendra Modi’s party had to tread lightly so as to not alter demographic balances. The party came up with Basavaraj Bommai, who has been leading the state through a particularly turbulent time over communal troubles. ,Biplab Deb is being replaced by Manik Saha, Tripura BJP chief and a member of the Rajya Sabha. The 69-year-old dental surgeon-turned-CM said, “I was a common worker of the party and will continue to be so.” ,Biplab Deb congratulated Manik Saha saying, “Congratulations and best wishes to @DrManikSaha2 ji on being elected as the legislature party leader. I believe under PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s vision and leadership Tripura will prosper.”

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  <li>Biplab Deb resigned as Tripura CM Saturday</li>
  <li>Tripura goes to polls next year</li>
  <li>BJP changed CMs in 3 states before polls</li>
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New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday congratulated Manik Saha, who will replace Biplab Kumar Deb as the Tripura chief minister, and expressed confidence that he will lead the state towards progress and development. Saha, the BJP's state president, was elected the BJP legislature party leader at a meeting at the chief minister's official residence soon after Deb tendered his resignation to Governor SN Arya. Nadda said, Congratulations to Manik Saha for becoming the CM designate of Tripura. My best wishes to him for leading the state and taking it forward towards progress and development for all.

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In a quite surprising decision, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb rendered his resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya just a year before the assembly elections. Rajya Sabha MP Manika Saha has been appointed the new CM of Tripura by the BJP leadership. Also Read: Who is Manik Saha?,Following his resignation, Biplab Deb, who was BJP’s first CM of the northeastern state, on Saturday said, “We need to keep the BJP in power for long in Tripura”. ,He also indicated that the top BJP leadership in New Delhi was not happy with his style of governance. It, according to media reports, asked him to step down. While addressing the media, Deb talked about what he tried to do during his over four years tenure that started in March 2018. Also Read: Who is UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan?,The party [BJP] is above all. I have worked for the party under the leadership and direction of PM Modi. I have tried to do justice to the people of Tripura as the head of the party’s state unit and as CM. I have tried to ensure peace, development and steer the state out of the Covid crisis,” ,Biplab Deb also said that Everything has a time frame. We work in that time frame. Wherever I am sent, be it CM or some other post, Biplab Deb can fit in everywhere. Also Read: Why Singapore banned Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’?,Deb’s resignation came a day after he met Union home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah in New Delhi. ,Soon after he sent his letter to the Tripura governor, the All India Trinamool Congress made a scathing attack on Deb. The party alleged that he failed thousands of people in Tripura. So, his top bosses are unhappy with him. Also Read: Who is Tajinder Singh Bagga?,Reacting to Biplab Kumar Deb's resignation, the All India Trinamool Congress tweeted, Goodbye & good riddance to the CM who failed thousands of people in Tripura! Enough damage done. So much so that even the top bosses at BJP are fed up of his INCOMPETENCE. Sudip Roy Burman, the former state health minister who defected BJP and joined Congress, said, By removing Biplab, BJP has admitted that a loot raj was happened in Tripura. Also Read: Rahul Gandhi accuses PM Modi of 'lying' over WHO's Covid-19 deaths' report,Sudip Roy Burman was foremost among senior leaders and ministers who questioned Biplab Deb's leadership credentials during his tenure as CM.

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  <li>Biplab Kumar Deb assumed the Tripura CM seat in March 2018</li>
  <li>He resigned a day after he met Amit Shah in New Delhi</li>
  <li>Deb was the first BJP CM of Tripura</li>
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Agartala, May 14 (PTI) In a surprise move, BJP made Rajya Sabha MP Manik Saha the new chief minister of Tripura, succeeding Biplab Kumar Deb who resigned earlier on Saturday.Saha, the BJP's state president, was elected the legislature party leader at a meeting at the chief minister's official residence soon after a crestfallen Deb tendered his resignation to Governor SN Arya.As Deb proposed the 69-year-old Saha's name in the meeting, minister Ram Prasad Paul protested, which led to a scuffle among MLAs. Paul also broke a few chairs before the situation was calmed, sources said.Paul wanted deputy chief minister Jishnu Dev Varma, a member of the erstwhile Tripura royal family, as the next chief minister of the state, they said.Senior BJP leaders Bhupender Yadav and Vinod Tawde were observers for the election of the legislature party leader.I was a common worker of the party and will continue to be to be so, Saha told reporters after being named the next chief minister.Deb, 50, resigned a day after meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi.Party is above all. I am a loyal worker of the BJP. I hope I have done justice to the responsibilities that were given to me -- whether it was as BJP state president or as Tripura chief minister. I have worked for the overall development of Tripura, and to ensure peace for the people of the state, Deb said after resigning.The 2023 election is coming, and the party wants a responsible organiser to take charge of the affairs here. Because, a government can only be formed if the organisation is strong, he said, explaining the party's decision to give him organisational responsibilities.Deb was appointed the chief minister after the BJP stormed to power in 2018, ending 25 years of Left Front rule in the Northeastern state.

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New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) Manik Saha will be the new Tripura chief minister succeeding Biplab Kumar Deb who resigned earlier on Saturday, BJP leaders said. Saha was elected the BJP legislature party leader, they said. Congratulations and best wishes to @DrManikSaha2 ji on being elected as the legislature party leader. I believe under PM Shri @narendramodi Ji's vision and leadership Tripura will prosper, Deb tweeted.

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