Manik Saha takes oath as 11th chief minister of Tripura

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Tripura BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Manik Saha took oath as the 11th Chief Minister of the state at the Raj Bhavan in Agartala on May 15, a day after Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from the post.

• The 69-year-old Saha (A professor of dental surgery) was named as the leader of the BJP legislature party hours after the resignation of Deb. 

• Saha left the Congress and joined the BJP in 2016.

• During his early days in the party, he was in charge of urban areas in the Booth Management Committee in the 2018 assembly elections.

• After BJP's thumping victory in the assembly elections, he was given the responsibility of in-charge of the booth management committee for the 2019 parliamentary elections.

• Deb was sworn in as the first CM of Tripura in 2018, ending the 25-year rule of the Communist Party of India in the state.

• About Tripura

• Capital   -   Agartala

• Governor   -   Satyadeo Narain Arya

• State Bird  -  Green Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea)

• State Tree    Agar (Aquilaria malaccensis)

• State Flower      -   Nageswar (Mesua Ferrea)

• State Flower      -   Nageswar (Mesua Ferrea)

• Borders    -    Bangladesh, Mizoram and Assam.

• connected with the rest of India -  by NH-44 that runs through Assam, Meghalaya, North Bengal, Kolkata and other parts of India.

• No. of Districts      -   08