Tripura CM Dr Manik Saha suspended all his public events for the day as a mark of respect for Haque. CPIM state secretary Jitendra Chaudhary said Haque's "untimely death is an irreparable loss".
Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on Wednesday disqualified BJP MLA Ashis Das, who joined the Trinamool Congress on October 31 last year, under the anti-defection law (the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution).