Tripura: 11 MLAs take oath as Cabinet ministers

Nine ministers are from the Bharatiya Janata Party and two are from its ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura.

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· May 16, 2022 · 11:44 am

Manik Saha takes oath as Tripura chief minister

He was elected as the new leader of the state legislature party hours after Biplab Deb announced his resignation from the post on Saturday.

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· May 15, 2022 · 12:10 pm

Manik Saha to take over as Tripura chief minister after Biplab Deb’s resignation

It is not yet known why Deb resigned, but there has been discontent about his leadership among the party MLAs.

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· May 14, 2022 · 04:31 pm

Naga People Front is still intact, says party chief day after 21 MLAs defect to NDPP

Nagaland is the only state in India with no Opposition in the state Assembly.

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· May 01, 2022 · 01:10 pm

Can an artist’s graffiti breathe new life into Arunachal’s anti-dam movement?

Nilim Mahanta and Ebo Mili were arrested for painting ‘No More Dams’ on a wall of Arunachal’s civil secretariat building.

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· Apr 10, 2022 · 09:00 am

Lasting peace? Decoding the BJP’s move to curtail AFSPA in the North East

The party has claims to have solved long-running disputes and security problems in the region.

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· Apr 02, 2022 · 06:30 am

In Tripura, as the BJP absorbs the Tipra People’s Front, it hopes to capture the tribal vote

But the party has to balance tribal concerns with the sentiments of its Bengali Hindu votebank.

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· Mar 31, 2022 · 09:00 am

Tripura People’s Front merges with BJP in Agartala

TPF chief Patal Kanya Jamatia said that she took the decision after seeing the ‘pro-people governance’ of the BJP-led government.

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· Mar 21, 2022 · 12:23 pm

As police shootings continue in Assam, the state government openly backs them

Two rape-accused were shot last week. Both belonged to minority communities, in keeping with the larger pattern of police shootings in the state.

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· Mar 21, 2022 · 06:30 am

Manipur: BJP MLA says those who voted for National People’s Party won’t get government entitlements

Lamsang MLA S Rajen Singh said that those voters have ‘forfeited’ their rights.

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· Mar 14, 2022 · 05:48 pm

Tripura: Two former BJP MLAs join Congress a day after resigning from the Assembly

On Monday, Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha had resigned from their post as MLAs and given up their BJP membership.

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· Feb 08, 2022 · 02:03 pm

Tripura: Two BJP MLAs resign citing differences with CM Biplab Kumar Deb

Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha are the MLAs who have sent their resignations to Speaker Ratan Chakraborty.

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· Feb 07, 2022 · 01:24 pm