Guwahati: Two Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in Tripura resigned on Monday, citing differences with Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, reports claimed.
Speaker Ratan Chakraborty has received resignation letters from MLAs Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha.
Roy Barman stated that he and Saha will travel to Delhi later in the day to determine the next steps. They may, however, enter the Congress on Tuesday, according to reports.
“On February 12th, we’ll be back in Tripura,” Saha remarked. “We’ve also sent resignation letters to BJP state president Manik Saha, resigning from the party’s primary membership.”
Meanwhile, Ashish Das, a former leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has resigned as an MLA. On October 5, he left the BJP.
He had shaved his head and offered prayers at Kolkata’s Kalighat temple as penance for the saffron party’s “misdeeds” at the time.
The BJP now has 33 members in the 60-member Tripura Assembly as a result of the resignations.
BJP MLAs have already expressed their displeasure with Deb’s performance as chief minister. Nine BJP legislators from the state met with the party’s leadership in Delhi in October 2020 to express their displeasure with Deb’s “misrule.”
Barman had led the group, which also included Saha.
Sushanta Choudhury, one of the MLAs, said, “Neither the government nor the party is moving in the correct manner, as it should be.” “All of the pre-election promises stated in the party’s vision plan will be kept. These ought to be reflected in action, but we are yet a long way from there.”
In 2018, the BJP and its Tripura ally, the Indigenous People’s Front, won a historic victory in the state, unseating the state’s 25-year-old Left Front government. The BJP received 36 seats, while the IPFT received eight.