List of chief ministers of Tripura

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Chief Minister of Tripura
Seal of Tripura.svg
Emblem of Tripura
Biplab Kumar Deb (cropped).png
Incumbent
Biplab Kumar Deb
since 9 March 2018
StyleThe Honourable (Formal)
Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
StatusHead of Government
AbbreviationCM
Member ofTripura Legislative Assembly
Reports toGovernor of Tripura
AppointerGovernor of Tripura
Term lengthAt the confidence of the assembly
Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Inaugural holderSachindra Lal Singh
Formation1 July 1963
(58 years ago) (1963-07-01)
DeputyJishnu Dev Varma

The Chief Minister of Tripura, an Indian state, is the head of the Government of Tripura. As per the Constitution of India, the Governor of Tripura is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Tripura Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]

Since 1963, Tripura has had nine chief ministers. The first was Sachindra Lal Singh of the Indian National Congress. Manik Sarkar of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) served as Chief Minister of Tripura from 1998 to 2018; his reign was the longest in the state's history. The current incumbent is Biplab Kumar Deb, who is also the first CM of the state from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Chief Ministers of Tripura[]

Colour key for parties
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Congress for Democracy
  Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress (I)
  Janata Party
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  N/A (President's rule)
No Portrait Name Constituency Term[2] Assembly

(election)

Party[a]
1 No image available.svg Sachindra Lal Singh Agartala Sadar II 1 July 1963 1 November 1971 8 years, 123 days 1st Assembly

(1963 election)[b]

Indian National Congress
2nd Assembly

(1967 election)

– Emblem of India.svg Vacant[c]
(President's rule) 		N/A 1 November 1971 20 March 1972 140 days – N/A
2 No image available.svg Sukhamoy Sen Gupta Agartala Town III 20 March 1972 31 March 1977 5 years, 11 days 3rd Assembly

(1972 election)[d]

Indian National Congress
3 No image available.svg Prafulla Kumar Das Bamutia 1 April 1977 25 July 1977 115 days Congress for Democracy
4 No image available.svg Radhika Ranjan Gupta Fatikroy 26 July 1977 4 November 1977 101 days Janata Party
– Emblem of India.svg Vacant[c]
(President's rule) 		N/A 5 November 1977 5 January 1978 61 days – N/A
5 Nripen Chakraborty.jpg Nripen Chakraborty Pramodnagar 5 January 1978 5 February 1988 10 years, 31 days 4th Assembly

(1977 election)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
5th Assembly

(1983 election)

6 No image available.svg Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar Town Bordowali 5 February 1988 19 February 1992 4 years, 14 days 6th

Assembly

(1988 election)

Indian National Congress
7 No image available.svg Samir Ranjan Barman Bishalgarh 19 February 1992 10 March 1993 1 year, 19 days
– Emblem of India.svg Vacant[c]
(President's rule) 		N/A 11 March 1993 10 April 1993 30 days – N/A
8 Dasarath Deb1946.jpg Dasarath Deb Ramchandraghat 10 April 1993 11 March 1998 4 years, 335 days 7th

Assembly

(1993 election)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
9 Manik Sarkar.jpg Manik Sarkar Dhanpur 11 March 1998 7 March 2003 19 years, 363 days 8th Assembly

(1998 election)

7 March 2003 10 March 2008 9th Assembly

(2003 election)

10 March 2008 6 March 2013 10th Assembly

(2008 election)

6 March 2013 9 March 2018[4] 11th Assembly

(2013 election)

10 Biplab Kumar Deb (cropped).png Biplab Kumar Deb Banamalipur 9 March 2018 Incumbent 3 years, 333 days 12th Assembly
(2018 election) 		Bharatiya Janata Party

Notes[]

  1. ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
  2. ^ On 1 July 1963, the Territorial Council of Union Territory of Tripura was dissolved and the first Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Tripura was constituted. Members of the dissolved Territorial Council became members of the first assembly and permitted to continue for the remainder of their original five year term.
  3. ^ a b c When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[3]
  4. ^ On 1 February 1972, State of Tripura came into existence constituted from the erstwhile Union Territory of Tripura.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Tripura as well.
  2. ^ Former Chief Ministers of Tripura. Government of Tripura. Retrieved on 21 August 2013.
  3. ^ Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.
  4. ^ Karmakar, Rahul (4 March 2018). "Manik Sarkar resigns in Tripura, BJP to take over on March 8". The Hindu.

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