GG News Bureau
Agartala, 4th July. Tripura Speaker Ratan Chakraborty announced on Monday that Chief Minister Manik Saha, who won the by-election to the Town Bardowali assembly seat, will take oath as MLA on July 8.
On Monday, Saha met Rajya Sabha chairman and Vice-President M Venkiah Naidu in Delhi and tendered his resignation as Rajya Sabha MP, according to the speaker.
Sudip Roy Barman (Congress), Manila Debnath (BJP), and Swapna Das (BJP), three of the four MLAs elected in the by-election, were sworn in on June 29. Saha did not take the oath for ‘technical reasons.’
On May 14, Saha took over as Tripura chief minister, succeeding Biplab Kumar Deb, the state’s first BJP chief minister.
To fulfil the constitutional requirement, the dental surgeon-turned-politician ran in the by-election and won comfortably on June 26. Saha is also the state president of the BJP.
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