Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb Resigns

AGARLATA: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from his post on Saturday. He submitted his resignation to Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya.

The state is set to go to the polls early next year. "We need to keep the BJP in power for long in Tripura," Biplab Deb said post his resignation on Saturday.

He added, "The party [BJP] is above all. I have worked for the party under the leadership and direction of PM Modi. I have tried to do justice to the people of Tripura as the head of the party's state unit and as CM. I have tried to ensure peace, development and steer the state out of the Covid crisis." 

Speaking to the media, he said, "Everything has a time frame. We work in that time frame. Wherever I am sent, be it CM or some other post, Biplab Deb can fit in everywhere."

The resignation comes a day after Biplab Kumar Deb met Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi. The decision regarding his resignation, according to sources, came from the BJP's leadership.

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