After quitting BJP, Tripura MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl joins Congress

Agartala, Dec 30: A day after quitting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Assembly, Tripura MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl on Thursday (Dec 29) joined the Congress. Hrangkhawl who was representing the Karamcherra seat in the Dhalai District of Tripura was a four-time MLA.

 

 

 

 

Hrangkhawl resigned from the Assembly and the party citing "personal" reasons. He had won on a BJP ticket from the Karamcharra constituency in 2018 after quitting the Congress. Hrangkhawl's resignation has taken the number of MLAs to have quit the ruling BJP-IPFT coalition in Tripura to eight and the fifth BJP MLA since 2021 in the poll-bound state. The strength of the BJP in the Assembly is now 34 while that of the IPFT is five, more than the majority mark of 29 in the 56-member Assembly.

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier, Burba Mohan Tripura, Ashis Das, Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Kumar Saha had quit the BJP and the Assembly since 2021. The MLAs who quit the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) were Dhananjoy Tripura, Brishaketu Debbarma and former minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia. Tripura state BJP state spokesperson Subrata Chakrabarty, while talking about Diba's resignation, said that it would not affect the party.

 

"Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl was such an MLA, who was not physically well and was not delivering services properly as per the commitment of an MLA. What he was supposed to deliver to the public as an MLA, he was failing in that. He knew it. Besides, if anybody wants to work or stay in BJP for any personal benefit, then he can never get a place here. BJP can't be utilized for any personal interest," Subrata Chakrabarty said.