Who is Manik Saha, the dentist who replaced Biplab Deb as Tripura chief minister

Tripura’s new CM Manik Saha (within the center) with Biplab Deb (R) on 14 Could, 2022. Twitter/@DrManikSaha2

Tripura Bharatiya Janata Get together president Manik Saha on Saturday changed Biplab Deb because the chief minister of the state.

His appointment got here simply hours after Deb resigned.

Saha amongst different issues is confronted with the duty of main the BJP within the 2023 Tripura elections.

Who’s Manik Saha?

A dentist by occupation, Saha was elected as a Rajya Sabha MP from Tripura final month.

The northeastern state sends just one member to the higher home of the parliament. Saha has six months to get elected to the Tripura Meeting by way of a bypoll.

He turned BJP’s Tripura unit chief in 2020.

“I used to be a standard employee of the get together and can proceed to be to be so,” the 69-year-old stated after he was declared the CM.

Saha who’s a professor and head of the division of the Tripura Medical Faculty and BR Ambedkar Memorial Instructing Hospital in Agartala, joined BJP in 2016, NDTV reported. Saha is a detailed affiliate of Biplab Deb who took to Twitter to congratulate his successor.

In response to his official biodata on the Rajya Sabha web site, Saha was born in Tripura’s capital Agartala in 1953. He was educated on the Authorities Dental Faculty, Patna, and King Georges’ Medical College, Lucknow.

2023 Tripura polls

The BJP got here to energy in Tripura for the primary time after profitable the 2018 Meeting elections that ended 25-year Left rule within the state.

Saha is now tasked with holding infighting within the state unit in test, forward of the subsequent polls.

With inputs from businesses

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