Decision on Tripura CM on March 6

March 04, 2018 18:31

Newly elected MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura in Tripura will meet in Agartala on March 6 to elect their leader, state BJP president Biplab Deb said today.

The BJP has 35 MLAs and the IPFT has eight.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari will be present at the meeting, Deb told PTI.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and many other Union ministers are likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony.

The elections in 59 seats of the 60-member assembly were held on February 18.

Polling was countermanded in one seat due to the death of a Communist Party of India-Marxist candidate. -- PTI

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