manik saha: Tripura chief minister Manik Saha takes oath as member of assembly

Tripura meeting Speaker Ratan Chakraborty administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Saha, who on Monday resigned from the Rajya Sabha.

Saha tweeted: “Took oath as a Member of Tripura Legislative Meeting, at this time. With the assistance of colleagues in the home and beneath the management of Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji, we will certainly take ahead the event works of the State.”

Within the June 23 by-polls, results of which was declared on June 26, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration gained three of the 4 seats together with that of Saha, who defeated Congress candidate Asish Kumar Saha by a margin of 6,104 votes.

The opposite three newly elected members — Sudip Roy Barman (Congress) and Malina Debnath and Swapna Das (Paul), each BJP — took oath as members of the Tripura meeting on June 28.

Saha who can also be the BJP’s state president took over on Could 15. He meets the requirement to combat the polls to turn out to be MLA inside six months. The bypolls had been necessitated after the resignation of three BJP MLAs and the demise of CPI-M legislator Ramendra Chandra Debnath.