AGARTALA, March 8 (TIWN): With a historical note, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top Central Ministers will arrive in Tripura to attend the newly won party leaders’ oath taking ceremony as Minister, CM and Speaker of the Assembly.The Central Ministers are : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Ananta Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will also be present on that occasion. BJP National leaders Amit Shah, Ramlal also to be present on that occasion.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Biplab Kumar Deb will assume office on Friday as the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura, where the BJP voted out the Left Front after 25 years, in the February 18 polls. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari earlier on Tuesday announced here that Tripura BJP President Deb will be the new Chief Minister while the party's tribal leader Jishnu Debbarma will be the Deputy Chief Minister.

Earlier, the newly-elected MLAs of the BJP and its ally -- Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) -- met here in the presence of central observers Gadkari and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram and elected Deb as leader of the party's Legislature Party.

After the announcement, Deb, accompanied by other BJP leaders, met Governor Tathagata Roy at the Raj Bhavan and staked claim to form the government.

After an hour-long meeting with Roy, the Chief Minister-designate told reporters: "The Governor has appointed me the Chief Minister. The swearing-in-ceremony of the BJP ministry will take place at the Assam Rifles ground on Friday at 12 noon."