AGARTALA/GUWAHATI: Manik Saha, whose 10 months as Tripura CM marked him out as BJPs option for a full term at the helm going into the polls, was Monday elected legislature party leader amid lobbying by some within the celebration for Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Pratima Bhoumik.
A representative for BJP stated all 32 MLAs of the party all endorsed Saha.
His former deputy Jishnu Dev Varma, who lost the Charilam seat to his nephew and royal scion Pradyot Debbarmans Tipra Motha, is tipped to keep the post along with key portfolios like finance.Sources stated BJP waited 3 days after the survey results were stated to assemble the legislature conference in Tripura due to the fact that the celebration hadnt expected Varma and state president Rajib Bhattacharjee to end up on the losing side.
The twin losses reinforced the whisperings in the Bhoumik camp about whether Saha was still the best individual to the lead the new federal government, they said.BJP keeps Tripura, Tipra Motha makes huge gainsIn Nagaland, the BJP legislature celebration Monday decided that celebration member Y Patton would stay deputy CM in the brand-new NDPP-led federal government there.
PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to be in Agartala on Wednesday when the 2nd BJP-IPFT federal government takes the oath of office, making it the third consecutive swearing-in event for him in as numerous days.
He will be in Shillong and Kohima the previous day to go to the installation of coalition federal governments led by Conrad Sangma in Meghalaya and Neiphiu Rio in Nagaland.This is the first time that the PM will be participating in the swearing-in of state governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Modi was in Tripura on February 13 and in Nagaland and Meghalaya on February 24 to project for BJP and its allies.
The PM will reach Guwahati at 10am Tuesday.
He will take a chopper to Shillong to go to the swearing-in of the brand-new government there at 11am.
From there, he will fly to Kohima for the 2nd swearing-in (of the NDPP-led federal government), scheduled for 1.45 pm, Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta said.
Modi will return to Guwahati and invest the night at the state guesthouse before leaving for Agartala in the morning.Tripura: Manik Saha to be next chief minister, oath taking event on March 8