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25 yrs CPI-M Era Ends : Tripura Civil Secretariat gears up to welcome Biplab Deb led 'BHAJPA' Govt
TIWN March 8, 2018
25 yrs CPI-M Era Ends : Tripura Civil Secretariat gears up to welcome Biplab Deb led 'BHAJPA' Govt
PHOTO : Preparations, decorations on peak at Tripura Civil Secretariat to welcome new Govt. TIWN Pic March 8

AGARTALA, March 8 (TIWN): With the sunset of the Left Govt in Tripura, following a 25 years of constant ruling amid success and failures both, now the Civil Secretariat is all set to welcome the new Govt led by Chief Minister Biplab Deb. The BJP, also known as "Bhajpa" will form a Govt officially in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP's central top leaders, Ministers including Party President Amit Shah by tomorrow. Decorations are going on inside Civil Secretariat, new colours are putting on the walls as from Prime Minister to Amit Shah all will be visiting Secretariat tomorrow.Centering the oath taking ceremony of the new state Ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top Central Ministers visits in Tripura preparations on peak.

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 11th 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." 

 

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