Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha distributed portfolios among the 11 council of ministers on Wednesday night, two days after the ministers took oath.According to an official notification, Saha, who took oath on Sunday, a day after Biplab Kumar .
Tripura CM s public meeting cancelled: Deputy CM Jishnu Dev Varma ANI | Updated: Dec 11, 2020 15:29 IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], December 11 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s program scheduled on December 13 in Agartala stands canceled, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma told the media on Thursday.
This comes days after Deb ‘invited’ the people of the state to take a call on his chief ministerial chair at a public meeting on December 13 at the Vivekananda Maidan in Agartala If people don t support me, I will inform the party high command, the CM had said.
A crucial meeting of BJP MLAs and Ministers was held in Deb’s residence on Wednesday evening.
Pradyot Deb Barman tests positive for COVID-19
Dec 11: Chairman of the Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA), Pradyot Kishore Deb Barman on Friday tested positive for novel coronavirus. Taking to Twitter, Deb Barman wrote, “I have tested positive for Coronavirus and gone in for complete isolation, experiencing high fever, loss of smell and body ache”.He also informed that the doctors advised him to take caution since he has an underlying heart condition. Deb Barman has undergone a series of treatment for his cardiac ailments.He further requested those who came in contact with him to take necessary precautions.He requested members of TIPRA not to worry about me but be focused on “what we are doing”.Earlier, among the VVIP’s and ministers in Tripura, Forest minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia, ruling BJP lawmaker Mimi Majumder, Rampada Jamatia, Asish Kumar Saha, BJP’s ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLA Dhananjoy Tripura, CPIM leader Jitendra Choudhu