Biplab Deb To Go For Cabinet Expansion But Can It Bring Down Internal Squabble?
Following the union cabinet reshuffle, Tripura CM is also likely to bring in new faces replacing few underperforming ministers as the state prepares for the assembly election early 2023.
Pinaki Das 18 July 2021, Last Updated at 10:46 am File Photo Pinaki Das 2021-07-18T10:09:54+05:30 Biplab Deb To Go For Cabinet Expansion But Can It Bring Down Internal Squabble? outlookindia.com 2021-07-18T10:46:59+05:30
After completion of three years and four months, the BJP-IPFT government in Tripura led by Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is likely to reshuffle and expand in the form of recent expansion of the union cabinet under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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
Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma. (File)
Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma has tested positive for COVID-19. “I have tested positive for coronavirus and gone in for complete isolation. I have high fever and showing symptoms like loss of smell and body achem,” he wrote on his Facebook page this evening.
Pradyot, who is the chief of Tripura Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance’s (TIPRA), a socio-politcal outfit, had been travelling across the state for the past many days over the anti-Bru settlement agitation. TIPRA is
seeking action from the state government in the case of a
mob lynching of a fireman trying to manage a blockade on national highway on November 21 during the anti-Bru settlement protest.