Ashish Kumar Saha

Ashish Saha
President
Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 June 2023
Preceded byBirajit Sinha
Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
In office
2009–2022
Preceded bySudhir Ranjan Majumdar
Succeeded byManik Saha
ConstituencyTown Bordowali
Personal details
Born (1960-01-02) 2 January 1960 (age 66)
PartyIndian National Congress

Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian politician from Tripura, India. He is currently serving as President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee.

In the 2018 assembly elections, he was elected from the Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.

Political career

In 2016, he was one of six MLAs from the Indian National Congress who joined Trinamool Congress, due to dissatisfaction over the INC allying with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

On 23 December 2016, Saha demanded that Tripura Forest and Rural development Minister Naresh Jamatia (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 the Trinamool Congress who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2022 he rejoined the Indian National Congress.

References

  1. ↑ "Assembly Since 1963" (PDF). p. 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. ↑ TPCC top brass resign from their post
  3. ↑ Town Bardowali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
  4. ↑ My Neta
  5. ↑ Six Congress MLAs in Tripura join Trinamool
  6. ↑ "TMC, BJP demand removal of Tripura minister over alleged sex scandal". 23 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Recognise Ex-TMC MLAs as BJP Members in Tripura: BJP". Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.