2018 Tripura Assembly Elections Feb 18,2018 - Biplab Deb To Take Oath As Tripura Chief Minister Today Friday March 09,2018

Biplab Kumar Deb, the 48-year-old Tripura BJP president, is set to take oath as the Chief Minister of the northeastern state today Friday March 09,2018  at a grand ceremony to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president Amit Shah and party leaders.

 In the new government, senior BJP leader Jishnu Debbarma will assist Mr Deb as his deputy.

The BJP's arrival in Tripura following a spectacular electoral victory is being seen as a humiliating defeat for the unchallenged 25-year rule of the Left.

The "historic verdict" -- the BJP got out for nought in 2013 -- dethroned four-time Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and demolished his almost impenetrable fortress.

Born in 1969 in a middle class family in Tripura's Gomati district, in a village called Rajdhar Nagar, Biplab Deb graduated from Tripura's Udaipur College in 1999 and left for Delhi soon after to join the RSS, where he was a volunteer for 16 years, training under prominent leaders Gobinda Acharya and Krishnagopal Sharma.

Two years ago, he was called back home where he replaced Sudhindra Dasgupta, the longest-serving BJP chief in Tripura to become the youngest party chief in any state. A BJP assessment last year, the party said, showed that Biplab Deb was more popular than Manik Sarkar in Tripura.