• BJP state president Manik Saha was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tripura, replacing Biplab Kumar Deb.

• Biplab Kumar Deb had become the CM after the BJP stormed to power in 2018, ending 25 years of Left Front rule in the northeastern state.

• Saha was elected the BJP legislature party leader at a meeting at the Chief Minister’s official residence soon after Deb tendered his resignation. 

• Governor S.N. Arya administered the oath to Saha, a Rajya Sabha MP.

• Eleven MLAs — nine from the ruling BJP and two of the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) were sworn in as cabinet ministers of the new Manik Saha-led government.

• Of the 11 ministers, Ram Pada Jamatia of the BJP and Prem Kumar Reang (IPFT) were the only ones who did not figure in the Biplab Kumar Deb-led cabinet.

• Saha, a maxillofacial surgeon who graduated from the King George Medical College in Lucknow, was a member of the opposition Congress before he joined the BJP in 2016. He became the party's state president in 2020.

• A former badminton player of repute, Saha is also the President of Tripura Cricket Association.

• His importance to BJP stems from his clean image and his track record, which includes crafting BJP’s victory in all thirteen civic bodies in the elections held in November 2021.

• The state is slated to go to Assembly elections in 2023.

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