Outgoing Chief Minister meets Governor, but did not claimed to form govt

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Mar 03, 2023

Agartala, Mar 3 (FD): The outgoing chief minister Dr Manik Saha today tendered his resignation from the post of chief minister to the governor Satyadeo Narayan Arya in the Raj Bhawan, but did not claim to form government.

The governor asked him to continue as care-taker chief minister until formation of the new government.

“I have tendered my resignation to the Governor, who asked me to continue as the Chief Minister till the new government is formed”, Saha told reporters after meeting the governor.

He said that the swearing in of the new government is tentatively fixed for the 8th March when the new ministers of the government will be sworn in by the governor Satyadeo Narayan Arya in Raj Bhawan.

Saha also indicated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J.P.Nadda are likely to come to attend the swearing in ceremony.

Replying to a question, he said he did not stake claim to form the government because the chief minister’s name will be decided at the legislature party meeting.

The spokesman of the BJP, Subrata Chakraborty said that the date of meeting of the legislature party was yet to be fixed.

The BJP-IPFT alliance has secured absolute majority by winning 33 seats in the sixty-member assembly in Tripura, the elections for which was held on Feb 16 last. FD JK