GUWAHATI: Amid the open resentment within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (
BJP),
Tripura
chief minister
Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday expanded his three and half years ministry by inducting three new faces.
All the three new ministers --
Ram Prasad Paul
, Sushanta Chowdhury and Bhagaban Chandra Das are from BJP. Deb refrained from inducting anyone from ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT).
While Paul is former state BJP vice president, Chowdhury is a youth leader and Das is the party’s key leader from northern Tripura.
With this expansion, the strength of the ministry is now 11, of which nine are from BJP and two from IPFT.
The expansion of ministry is seen as an exercise to douse the flames of dissent within the party ahead of the 2023 assembly election.
Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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