Tripura Legislative Assembly

Tripura Legislative Assembly
Tripura Legislative Assembly
12th Legislative Assembly of Tripura
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
Established	1963
Leadership
Speaker	Ratan Chakraborty, BJP ; since 24 September 2021
Deputy Speaker	Biswa Bandhu Sen, BJP ; since 21 June 2018
Leader of the House ; (Chief Minister)	Biplab Kumar Deb, BJP ; since 9 March 2018
Deputy Leader of the House ; (Deputy Chief Minister)	Jishnu Dev Varma, BJP ; since 9 March 2018
Leader of the Opposition	Manik Sarkar, CPI(M) ; since 9 March 2018
Structure
Seats	60
Political groups	Government (44) BJP (36); IPFT (8); Opposition (16) CPI(M) (16);
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	18 February 2018
Next election	February 2023
Meeting place
	Tripura Legislative Assembly, Gurkhabasti, Agartala, Tripura, India
Website
	tripuraassembly.nic.in

A panoramic view of the former (9th) Assembly building located in Ujjayanta palace (Pic taken on 29 October 2007)

The Tripura Legislative Assembly or Tripura Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tripura, with 60 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The present Assembly is located in Gurkhabasti. Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala served as the previous meeting place. The tenure of the Assembly is five years unless sooner dissolved. The present Assembly is the 12th Legislative Assembly, where Ratan Chakraborty is the current speaker of the House.

History

On 1 November 1956, Tripura became a Union territory, and an Advisory Committee was formed to advise the Chief commissioner.^[2] On 15 August 1957, a Territorial Council was formed with 30 elected members and two members nominated by the Government of India.

Previous Assemblies

The assemblies constituted so far are listed below:^[3]

Assembly	Period
1st Assembly	1 July 1963 to 12 January 1967
2nd Assembly	1 March 1967 to 1 November 1971
3rd Assembly	20 March 1972 to 5 November 1977
4th Assembly	5 January 1978 to 7 January 1983
5th Assembly	10 January 1983 to 5 February 1988
6th Assembly	5 February 1988 to 28 February 1993
7th Assembly	10 April 1993 to 10 March 1998
8th Assembly	10 March 1998 to 28 February 2003
9th Assembly	4 March 2003 to 3 March 2008
10th Assembly	10 March 2008 to 1 March 2013
11th Assembly	2 March 2013 to 3 March 2018
12th Assembly	4 March 2018 to

Current members

The 12th Tripura Legislative Assembly was constituted after the Tripura Legislative Assembly elections in 2018. Polling was held on 18 February^[4]^[5] for the 60-member assembly with 89.8% voter turnout being reported.^[6] Counting of votes and results were declared on 3 March.^[5]

S.No	Constituency	Elected MLA	Party
1	Simna	Brishaketu Debbarma style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura	^[7]
2	Mohanpur	Ratan Lal Nath style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
3	Bamutia	Krishnadhan Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
4	Barjala	Dilip Kumar Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
5	Khayerpur	Ratan Chakraborty style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP	Speaker
6	Agartala	Sudip Roy Barman style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
7	Ramnagar	Surajit Datta style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
8	Town Bordowali	Asish Kumar Saha style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
9	Banamalipur	Biplab Kumar Deb style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP	Chief Minister
10	Majlishpur	Sushanta Choudhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
11	Mandai Bazar	Dhirendra Debbarma style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
12	Takarjala	Narendra Chandra Debbarma style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
13	Pratapgarh	Rebati Mohan Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
14	Badharghat	Mimi Majumder style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
15	Kamalasagar	Narayan Chandra Choudhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
16	Bishalgarh	Bhanu Lal Saha style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
17	Golaghati	Birendra Kishore Debbarma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
18	Surjamaninagar	Ram Prasad Paul style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
19	Charilam	Jishnu Dev Varma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP	Deputy Chief Minister
20	Boxanagar	Sahid Choudhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
21	Nalchar	Subhash Chandra Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
22	Sonamura	Shyamal Chakraborty style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
23	Dhanpur	Manik Sarkar style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)	Leader of Opposition
24	Ramchandraghat	Prasanta Debbarma style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
25	Khowai	Nirmal Biswas style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
26	Asharambari	Mevar Kumar Jamatia style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
27	Kalyanpur–Pramodnagar	Pinaki Das Chowdhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
28	Teliamura	Kalyani Roy style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
29	Krishnapur	Atul Debbarma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
30	Bagma	Ram Pada Jamatia style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
31	Radhakishorpur	Pranjit Singha Roy style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
32	Matarbari	Biplab Kumar Ghosh style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
33	Kakraban-Salgarh	Ratan Bhowmik style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
34	Rajnagar	Sudhan Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
35	Belonia	Arun Chandra Bhowmik style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
36	Santirbazar	Pramod Reang style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
37	Hrishyamukh	Badal Choudhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
38	Jolaibari	Jashabir Tripura style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
39	Manu	Pravat Chowdhury style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
40	Sabroom	Sankar Roy style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
41	Ampinagar	Sindhu Chandra Jamatia style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
42	Amarpur	Ranjit Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
43	Karbook	Burba Mohan Tripura style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
44	Raima Valley	Dhananjoy Tripura style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
45	Kamalpur	Manoj Kanti Deb style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
46	Surma	Ashis Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP	^[8]
47	Ambassa	Parimal Debbarma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
48	Karmachhara	Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
49	Chawamanu	Sambhu Lal Chakma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
50	Pabiachhara	Bhagaban Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
51	Fatikroy	Sudhangshu Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
52	Chandipur	Tapan Chakraborty style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
53	Kailashahar	Moboshar Ali style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
54	Kadamtala-Kurti	Islam Uddin style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
55	Bagbassa	Bijita Nath style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
56	Dharmanagar	Biswa Bandhu Sen style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
57	Jubarajnagar	Ramendra Chandra Debnath style="width:4px; background-color:#FF0000;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)" \|	CPI (M)
58	Panisagar	Binay Bhushan Das style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
59	Pencharthal	Santana Chakma style="width:4px; background-color:#FF9933;" data-sort-value="Bharatiya Janata Party" \|	BJP
60	Kanchanpur	Prem Kumar Reang style="width:4px; " data-sort-value="Indigenous People's Front of Tripura" \|	Indigenous People's Front of Tripura

At a glance

Assembly at a glance^[3]

No. of Assembly & its Period	Date of its First Sitting	Governor (Name with Period)	Speaker	Deputy Speaker	Leader of the House	Leader of the Opposition	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
1st Assembly 01.07.1963 to 12 January 1967	7 October 1963	i. Santi Priya Mukherjee, IAS ii. Shri. M.C. Mukherjee, IAS	Upendra Kumar Roy	Md. Ersad Ali Choudhury	Sachindra Lal Singh	i. Aghore Deb Barma ii. Nripendra Chakraborty	Department of Parliamentary Affairs was not created
2nd Assembly 01.03.1967 to 1 November 1971	14 March 1967	i. U.N. Sharma, IAS ii. D.K. Bhattacharya iii. A.L. Dias, ICS iv. Baleswar Prasad, IAS	Manindra Lal Bhowmik	Manoranjan Nath	Sachindra Lal Singh	Bidya Chandra Deb Barma	Department of Parliamentary Affairs newly created in February 1971. This Dept was allocated to Prafulla Kumar Das, 01.02.1971 to 1 November 1971

References

↑ "BJP's Ratan Chakraborty elected Speaker of Tripura Assembly". EastMojo. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
↑ "Tripura to celebrate 50 years of assembly". The Times of India. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Tripura Legislative Assembly at a glance". legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
↑ "Tripura Election 2018 Date announced by EC: Check all details here". 18 January 2018.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "EC announces election dates for 3 NE states: Tripura to vote on 18 Feb, Meghalaya, Nagaland on 27 Feb; results for all states on 3 March - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. 18 January 2018.
↑ PTI (19 February 2018). "Tripura records 89.8% voter turnout in assembly elections: EC".
↑ "MLA Profiles | Tripura State Portal".
↑ "MLA Profiles | Tripura State Portal".

External links

[1] "BJP's Ratan Chakraborty elected Speaker of Tripura Assembly". EastMojo. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.

[toi-2] "Tripura to celebrate 50 years of assembly". The Times of India. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

[stats-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "Tripura Legislative Assembly at a glance". legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.

[4] "Tripura Election 2018 Date announced by EC: Check all details here". 18 January 2018.

[f-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "EC announces election dates for 3 NE states: Tripura to vote on 18 Feb, Meghalaya, Nagaland on 27 Feb; results for all states on 3 March - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. 18 January 2018.

[6] PTI (19 February 2018). "Tripura records 89.8% voter turnout in assembly elections: EC".

[7] "MLA Profiles | Tripura State Portal".

[8] "MLA Profiles | Tripura State Portal".

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Capital: Agartala
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