Seventy-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manik Saha took oath as chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura.
As per PTI report, Eight more ministers, including Ratan Lal Nath, Pranajit Singha Roy, Santana Chakma, Bikash Debbarma and Sukla Charan Noatia, were also sworn in by Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda as well as Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh were among the dignitaries present on the occasion.
In all, eight ministers from the BJP and one from its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) were inducted into the cabinet.
Noatia is from the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura.
