Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian politician from

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. He is currently serving as President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee. In 2018 assembly elections, he represented Town Bardowali constituency in

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Political career

In 2016, he was one of the six MLAs from

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who joined

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

, due to unhappiness with the party because of allying with the

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2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in 2016 for the 294 seats (out of 295 seats) of the '' Vidhan Sabha'' (Vidhān Sabhā) in the state of West Bengal in India. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and th ...

. On 23 December 2016, Saha demanded that Tripura Forest and Rural development Minister

Naresh Jamatia Naresh Chandra Jamatia (born 16 November 1959) is an Indian politician from Tripura. He previously served in the Fourth Manik Sarkar ministry as Minister of Forest, Rural Development and Election. He is a former Member of the Legislative Assembl ...

(CPI-M) be removed over a sex scandal that Jamatia was allegedly involved in. In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from

who joined

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. In 2022 he rejoined

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