BJP leader Biplab Kumar- new Chief Minister of Tripura to take charge

Agartala, March 06: BJP voted out the Left Front after 25 years in Tripura in the February 18 polls and has now declared name of new CM for the state. BJP leader Biplab Kumar Deb be the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura and will assume office on Friday.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari earlier on Tuesday announced here that Tripura BJP President Deb will be the new Chief Minister while the party's tribal leader Jishnu Debbarma will be the Deputy Chief Minister.

Earlier, the newly-elected MLAs of the BJP and its ally -- Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) -- met here in the presence of central observers Gadkari and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram and elected Deb as leader of the party's Legislature Party.