Manik oath

Agartala, March 08: Manik Saha, former Rajya Sabha member, will take oath as the Chief Minister of Tripura on Wednesday which the Bharatiya Janata Party won comfortably in the recently concluded polls.

There were expectations that he would be replaced by another BJP leader Pratima Bhoumik but these have been put to rest, for now.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the oath-taking ceremony along with Home Minister and former BJP President Amit Shah.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s current National President JP Nadda will attend the oath-taking ceremony of Manik Saha.

The opposition Congress and the CPM-led Left parties would boycott the swearing-in ceremony for the second BJP government on Wednesday due to the “unprecedented reign of terror unleashed by the BJP supporters and goons”.

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A Left Front statement said former Chief Minister and CPM politburo member Manik Sarkar and secretaries of the CPM, CPI, RSP, and Forward Bloc were invited by the state government to attend the swearing-in ceremony, but the Front has decided to boycott the event due to unprecedented reign of terror “unleashed by the BJP supporters and goons” across the state since the announcement of the assembly election results on March 2.

Congress will boycott the oath-taking ceremony on similar grounds.

Tripura state Congress chief and former Minister Birajit Sinha said since the announcement of the assembly election results on March 2, over a thousand incidents of violence have taken place in Tripura.

Blaming the ruling BJP, the Congress leader said at least three persons were killed while over 200 people were injured in the series of incidents of violence.

Many properties, including rubber gardens, shops, business establishments, vehicles, and houses were burnt down during the violence, which still continued, Sinha alleged.

The Tripura Congress chief threatened to launch a statewide agitation if the violence is not stopped immediately.