9 years ago
Kohima/Agartala/Shillong:
Biplab Deb, 48, will take oath at 5 on Thursday evening as the next Chief Minister of Tripura, sources said today. An official announcement is expected tomorrow after a meeting of the BJP's newly elected legislators, which union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Jual Oram will oversee as central observer. The Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) has said it will support the BJP from outside if its legislators did not get "respectable representation" in the new Tripura government. In Meghalaya, despite the Congress emerging as the single largest party with 21 seats, the BJP that won only two seats supported the formation of a non-Congress government with an alliance of regional parties. National People's Party (NPP) leader Conrad Sangma then met with Governor Ganga Prasad to stake claim to form government. Congress leader and Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has resigned. In Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and other candidates who joined the BJP-NDPP alliance met with Governor PB Acharya to stake claim to form government. Both sides were given 48 hours to prove they have the numbers to form the new government. The term of the current Nagaland assembly ends on March 13.
