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Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

Tripura Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...

, an

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, is the

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of the

Government of Tripura The Government of Tripura, also known as the State Government of Tripura, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Tripura and its 8 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor ...

. As per the

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, the Governor of Tripura is the state's ''

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'' head, but ''

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'' executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the

Tripura Legislative Assembly The Tripura Legislative Assembly or Tripura Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tripura, with 60 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The present Assembly is located in Gurkhabasti. Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala ser ...

, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose

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are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no

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s. Since 1963, Tripura has had eleven chief ministers. The first was

Sachindra Lal Singh Sachindra Lal Singh (7 August 1907 – 9 December 2000) was a leader of the Indian National Congress and the first Chief Minister of Tripura state in northeastern India from 1 July 1963 to 1 November 1971. In 1977, he became the leader of the ...

of the

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Manik Sarkar Manik Sarkar is an Indian communist politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tripura from March 1998 to March 2018. He is a Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In March 2008, he was sworn in as leader of Left Fron ...

of the

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served as Chief Minister of Tripura from 1998 to 2018; his reign was the longest in the state's history. The incumbent is

Manik Saha Manik Saha (born 8 January 1953) is an Indian politician serving as the current and the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura. Political career Saha was a member of Indian National Congress before joining Bharatiya Janata Party in 2016. He became t ...

, after

Biplab Kumar Deb Biplab Kumar Deb (born 25 November 1971) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Tripura. He was the state unit president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tripura from 7 January 2016 up to 2018. He led the BJP to victory in the 2018 ...

resigned from the post.

Chief Ministers of Tripura

Living former chief ministers of Tripura

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Prafulla Kumar Das Prafullah Kumar Das (born )"Illegal migrations and the North-east: a study of migrants from Bangladesh", De, Sibopada, 2005, pg. 134 was the Chief Minister of Tripura state of India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a ...

(1977)
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Samir Ranjan Barman Samir Ranjan Barman is an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 19 February 1992 to 10 March 1993 as a member of the Indian National Congress. He is the father of the current legislator from Agartala Constituency ...

(1992–1993)
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(1998–2018)
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(2018–2022)
The most recent death of a former chief minister was that of Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar on 4 January 2009, aged 69.

Chief Ministers of Tripura

Living former chief ministers of Tripura

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