Biplab Kumar Deb | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok sabha | |
Assumed office 4 june 2024 | |
Preceded by | Pratima bhoumik |
Constituency | Tripura West |
Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha | |
Assumed office 22 September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Manik Saha |
Constituency | Tripura |
10th Chief Minister of Tripura | |
In office 9 March 2018 [1] –14 May 2022 | |
Preceded by | Manik Sarkar |
Succeeded by | Manik Saha |
Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly | |
In office 3 March 2018 –22 September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Gopal Chandra Roy |
Succeeded by | Gopal Chandra Roy |
Constituency | Banamalipur |
President of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Tripura unit | |
In office 2016–2018 | |
Succeeded by | Manik Saha |
Personal details | |
Born | Rajdhar Nagar,Tripura,India [2] [3] | 25 November 1971
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Other political affiliations | National Democratic Alliance |
Spouse | Niti Deb |
Children | 2 (1 daughter and 1 son) |
Residence(s) | Shyamaprasad Mukerjee Lane,Agartala [4] |
Alma mater | Tripura University |
Biplab Kumar Deb (born 25 November 1971) [5] is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Rajya Sabha from Tripura since 2022. He also served as the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura from 2018 to 2022. He was the member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly from Banamalipur constituency from 2018 to 2022. He was also the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Tripura unit from 2016 to 2018. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. [6] [7]
Biplab Deb was born on 25 November 1971 in Rajdhar Nagar village,Udaipur,Gomati district,Tripura. [5] [8] His parents had migrated to India as refugees from Chandpur District,East Pakistan during liberation war in 1971 before his birth. [9] [10] His father is a citizen of India since 27 June 1967. [11] He spent his childhood and schooling days in Tripura,completing his graduation from Tripura University before shifting to New Delhi. [5] [12] He later returned to Tripura after an absence of 15 years. [13]
Deb was elected the President of Tripura state unit of BJP in January 2017 replacing Sudhindra Dasgupta who was BJP's longest serving state president. He started his political career by campaigning for the 2018 state election. He began his campaign from the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council which was believed to be the base of the then governing CPI(M). [14]
On 8 August 2017 Biplab Deb helped bring about the defection of All India Trinamool Congress MLAs led by Sudip Roy Barman to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He led the local BJP into the 2018 Legislative Assembly election,attempting to gain office after 25 years of Left Front rule.
Deb contested the election from Banamalipur Constituency in Agartala and won by a margin of 9,549 votes,which was held by Indian National Congress MLA Gopal Chandra Roy. Deb led the Tripura's Election campaign and defeated Left Front after 25 years by winning 44 seats with his ally Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura out of possible 60 seats in Tripura. [15] [16] [17]
Deb campaigned on the subject of youth employment opportunities,which he promised to improve if elected Chief Minister of Tripura. [18] He also promised the employees of Tripura that he would implement the 7th Pay Commission once he got elected. [19] Deb brought in key BJP ministers from across India to campaign for the party in Tripura. [20] [21]
He took his oath as the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura on 9 March 2018. [22] He resigned from the post on 14 May 2022. [23] [24]
In April 2018,Deb stirred nationwide controversy by claiming Internet existed during the times of the Mahabharata. [25]
He also made controversial remarks on the Civil Service Examination,stating that only civil engineers should sit for civil service exams. [26]
While addressing a function,Deb once again was surrounded in a controversy when he misquoted Rabindranath Tagore returned his Nobel Prize in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre instead of rejecting Knighthood in protest against the massacre in 1919. [25]
In November 2019,Deb claimed,"The Mughals intended to bomb the culture of Tripura". [27]
He also stated that international beauty pageants were a farce,and claimed that the decision to award Miss World and Miss Universe titles to Indian women for five years in a row was market-driven rather than based on the beauty of the participants while questioning the rationale behind awarding Diana Hayden the Miss World pageant. [28]
In 2020,he claimed that Punjabis and Jats are physically strong but less intelligent than Bengalis. [29]
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