Ratan Lal Nath (born 9 April 1948) is an Indian politician from

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. He is the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Power and Election in the second Manik Saha Ministry. He joined BJP in 2017 after leaving National Congress.He became the MLA from Mohanpur Constituency by defeating

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Candidate Subash Chandra Debnath by a margin of 5,176 votes.

Controversy

* A video that featured BJP MLA Arun Chandra Bhowmik saying that Nath should be fired for insulting him as he went to speak about the removal of two professors from a college without offering a replacement went viral on social media. * After equating former chief minister

Biplab 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 20 ...

with

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, and

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, Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath has come under fire. Ratan Lal Nath stated people in

should consider themselves "fortunate" because Biplab Deb was born there, equating him with the great leaders. * Sudip Roy Barman, a Congress candidate, requested on Tuesday that Chief Minister

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 th ...

and the BJP take action against Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath after accusing him in the Tripura parliament of intimidating a rape victim in order to deter her from reporting the incident to the police.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nath, Ratan Lal Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Tripura Tripura MLAs 2018–2023 State cabinet ministers of Tripura 1995 births Tripura MLAs 2023–2028