Tipra Motha, main opposition party in Tripura, to join BJP-led government

NEW DELHI: Tipra Motha, Tripura's main opposition party led by Pradyot Deb Barma, will join Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led government before Lok Sabha elections .

Tipra Motha has 13 MLAs in 60-member assembly and is likely to get two berths, state BJP president Rajib Bhattacharjee said. "Tipra Motha is set to join the BJP-IPFT coalition government before the Parliamentary elections. The date for swearing in of the ministers has not been finalised yet," Bhattacharjee said.

The development comes days after Pradyot Deb Barma's party signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre and the Tripura government in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah for a lasting solution to the problems of the North East state’s indigenous tribal population.

Tripura CM Manik Saha, tribal welfare minister Bikash Debbarma and cooperation minister Sukla Charan Noatia, along with several leaders of BJP and Tipra Motha, attended the accord-signing ceremony held at the North Block.

Talking to the media, Saha had said the signing of the agreement was the need of the hour.

Saha and Noatia, who is BJP ally IPFT’s lone face in the cabinet, left for Delhi along with chief secretary JK Sinha late Friday amid speculation that a deal with Tipra Motha was in the works.
(With PTI input)

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