Agartala, Mar 6: The BJP has succeeded to win the heart of tribal people of Tripura in the
legislature party meeting today by selecting Royal scion Jishnu Dev Varma
unanimously as deputy leader while BJP state president Biplab Kumar Deb as
leader of the legislators.
Deb accompanied by Dev Varma and top leaders of
the party met Governor Tathagata Roy and submitted their formal claim to form
the next government of the state. BJP’s ally tribal based Indigenous Peoples
Front of Tripura (IPFT) two days ago urged to elect a tribal legislator as
leader,
as 17 tribal seats of the 59 was won by BJP and IPFT.
The tribal legislators of both the parties welcomed the decision. Jishnu Dev Varma has been the BJP nominee for Charilam tribal reserved seat, the election of which was adjourned due to death of CPI-M nominee and re-scheduled on March 12 next. However, Dev Varma will take oath along with the chief minister and others on March 9 next.
The BJP parliamentary board representative and Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari after holding meeting of 35 BJP legislators told media that Biplab Kumar Deb will take oath as Chief Minister and Jishnu Dev Varma will be the deputy chief minister in the 12 –member cabinet.
The oath taking ceremony will be held on March 9 at 1200 hr at Assam Rifles ground in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior ministers of the central government and top leaders of BJP including party’s national president Amit Shah. All 19 Chief Ministers of BJP ruled states were invited to attend the swearing- in ceremony, Gadkari said.
“The legislators proposed the name of both unanimously and after detailed discussion they were elected. The chief minister and deputy chief minister will decide the other members of their cabinet tomorrow with the consultation of Tripura election in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma and party central observer Sunil Deodhar,” Gadkari said before leaving for Shillong.
Since 1998 when Manik Sarkar assumed office as chief minister, the post of deputy chief minister was abolished despite the demand to resume the post with tribal leader. The BJP since beginning has been flagging the issue against the left front blaming them for not giving due importance to tribal though they won 90 per cent of the seats since 1993.
The CPI-M became unpopular among the tribals when they opposed the IPFT-BJP alliance and accused the Prime Ministers Office of holding meeting with them on their demand twice. The CPI-M suffered a serious set back in the election mainly in the tribal reserved seats due to negative campaign against IPFT.
The tribal people accepted the proposition of constituting a high power committee to address the their socio-economic, cultural and educational issues. Besides, the commitment of empowerment of tribal autonomous district council (ADC), IPFT was given the assurance to include the government.
According to report, in 12 members’ council of ministers BJP will have 10 ministers, including the CM and deputy CM. Along with young and new comers, a few experienced legislators like Ratan Lal Nath, Ratan Chakraborty and Biswa Bandhu Sen are expected to be included in the cabinet. The BJP is ready to offer two ministerial berths for IPFT with important portfolios including tribal welfare and forest.
After BJP legislative party meeting at the State Guest House, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav and Sunil Deodhar held separate meeting with IPFT legislators including it’s president N C Debbarma and general secretary Mevar Kr Jamatia.
“We shall be joining the cabinet of the alliance government and we are confident about well gesture from BJP. This government will be people’s government, which will be dedicated to fulfill the aspiration of both tribal and non-tribal,” N C Debbarma told media after attending meeting. UNI
as 17 tribal seats of the 59 was won by BJP and IPFT.
The tribal legislators of both the parties welcomed the decision. Jishnu Dev Varma has been the BJP nominee for Charilam tribal reserved seat, the election of which was adjourned due to death of CPI-M nominee and re-scheduled on March 12 next. However, Dev Varma will take oath along with the chief minister and others on March 9 next.
The BJP parliamentary board representative and Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari after holding meeting of 35 BJP legislators told media that Biplab Kumar Deb will take oath as Chief Minister and Jishnu Dev Varma will be the deputy chief minister in the 12 –member cabinet.
The oath taking ceremony will be held on March 9 at 1200 hr at Assam Rifles ground in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior ministers of the central government and top leaders of BJP including party’s national president Amit Shah. All 19 Chief Ministers of BJP ruled states were invited to attend the swearing- in ceremony, Gadkari said.
“The legislators proposed the name of both unanimously and after detailed discussion they were elected. The chief minister and deputy chief minister will decide the other members of their cabinet tomorrow with the consultation of Tripura election in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma and party central observer Sunil Deodhar,” Gadkari said before leaving for Shillong.
Since 1998 when Manik Sarkar assumed office as chief minister, the post of deputy chief minister was abolished despite the demand to resume the post with tribal leader. The BJP since beginning has been flagging the issue against the left front blaming them for not giving due importance to tribal though they won 90 per cent of the seats since 1993.
The CPI-M became unpopular among the tribals when they opposed the IPFT-BJP alliance and accused the Prime Ministers Office of holding meeting with them on their demand twice. The CPI-M suffered a serious set back in the election mainly in the tribal reserved seats due to negative campaign against IPFT.
The tribal people accepted the proposition of constituting a high power committee to address the their socio-economic, cultural and educational issues. Besides, the commitment of empowerment of tribal autonomous district council (ADC), IPFT was given the assurance to include the government.
According to report, in 12 members’ council of ministers BJP will have 10 ministers, including the CM and deputy CM. Along with young and new comers, a few experienced legislators like Ratan Lal Nath, Ratan Chakraborty and Biswa Bandhu Sen are expected to be included in the cabinet. The BJP is ready to offer two ministerial berths for IPFT with important portfolios including tribal welfare and forest.
After BJP legislative party meeting at the State Guest House, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav and Sunil Deodhar held separate meeting with IPFT legislators including it’s president N C Debbarma and general secretary Mevar Kr Jamatia.
“We shall be joining the cabinet of the alliance government and we are confident about well gesture from BJP. This government will be people’s government, which will be dedicated to fulfill the aspiration of both tribal and non-tribal,” N C Debbarma told media after attending meeting. UNI
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