Manik Saha CM: Manik Saha will again become the Chief Minister of Tripura. He was elected leader in the Legislature Party meeting on Monday. He will meet the governor today and stake claim to form the government. According to the information, there will be a swearing-in ceremony on March 8, in which PM Modi will also participate. In the assembly elections held on February 16, the BJP had won 32 seats. The number of assembly seats in Tripura is 60. To form the government in the state, 31 seats are needed. BJP has absolute majority to form the government. Its ally, the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, got one seat. The tribal-based Tipra Motha Party, which contested 42 seats, emerged as the second largest party with 13 seats. The CPI(M) got 11 seats, while the Congress won three seats.

The newly elected legislators of the ruling BJP in Tripura met on Monday to elect the chief minister. The swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Minister and Council of Ministers will be held on Wednesday, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda are expected to attend. In this meeting of the MLAs, Manik Saha was again elected as the leader of the Legislature Party. In this meeting held in Agartala, apart from the newly elected MLAs, other leaders including BJP's Northeast Coordinator Sambit Patra, Manik Saha, BJP President Rajib Bhattacharjee and Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik were present. According to the information, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Ministers and their ministers of Meghalaya and Nagaland on Tuesday and Tripura on Wednesday. BJP sources said that the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Minister of Meghalaya and his Council of Ministers will be held in Shillong at 11 am on Tuesday.

Earlier, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited Tripura on Saturday and held a meeting with Saha, Bhowmick and other BJP leaders to discuss government formation. A senior BJP leader told that Sarma visited Delhi on Sunday and held a meeting with Shah and Nadda and discussed government formation in Tripura-Nagaland.