13th Tripura Assembly

The Thirteenth Tripura Assembly was formed after 2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election. Elections were held in 60 constituencies on 16 February 2023. Votes were counted on 2 March 2023.^[1]

13th Tripura Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Tripura Legislative Assembly
Jurisdiction	Tripura, India
Meeting place	Tripura Vidhan Sabha, Agartala
Term	2023 – 2028
Election	2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
Government	National Democratic Alliance
Opposition	Secular Democratic Forces
Website	https://www.tripuraassembly.nic.in/
Members	60
Chief Minister	Manik Saha
Speaker of the Assembly	Biswa Bandhu Sen
Deputy Speaker of the Assembly	Ram Prasad Paul
Leader of the Opposition	Jitendra Chaudhury
Party control	Bharatiya Janata Party

History

Bharatiya Janata Party led alliance won election with 34(BJP 33 + IPFT 1) seats while newcomer Tipra Motha Party become second largest party with 13 seats. Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Secular Democratic Forces won 14(11 CPIM + 3 INC).^[2]

Notable positions

S.No	Position	Portrait	Name	Party		Constituency	Office Taken
1	Speaker		Biswa Bandhu Sen		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dharmanagar	24 March 2023[3]
2	Deputy Speaker		Ram Prasad Paul			Suyamaninagar	28 March 2023[4]
3	Leader of the House (Chief Minister)		Manik Saha			Town Bardowali	13 March 2023
4	Leader of Opposition		Jitendra Chaudhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sabroom	6 March 2024

Party wise distribution

Current partywise distribution of the 13th Tripura Legislative Assembly

Alliance		Party		No. of MLA's		Leader of the Party in Assembly	Leader's Constituency
	National Democratic Alliance		Bharatiya Janata Party	33	47	Manik Saha	Town Bordowali
			Tipra Motha Party	13		Animesh Debbarma	Asharambari
			Indigenous People's Front of Tripura	1		Sukla Charan Noatia	Jolaibari
	Secular Democratic Forces		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	10	13	Jitendra Chaudhury	Sabroom
			Indian National Congress	3		Sudip Roy Barman	Agartala
Total no. of MLAs				60

Members of Legislative Assembly

District	No.	Constituency	Name	Party		Alliance		Remarks
West Tripura	1	Simna (ST)	Brishaketu Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party		NDA	Minister of State
	2	Mohanpur	Ratan Lal Nath		Bharatiya Janata Party			Cabinet Minister
	3	Bamutia (SC)	Nayan Sarkar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	4	Barjala (SC)	Sudip Sarkar
	5	Khayerpur	Ratan Chakraborty		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA
	6	Agartala	Sudip Roy Barman		Indian National Congress		SDF
	7	Ramnagar	Surajit Datta		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Died on 27 December 2023[5]
			Dipak Majumder
	8	Town Bordowali	Manik Saha					Chief Minister
	9	Banamalipur	Gopal Chandra Roy		Indian National Congress		SDF
	10	Majlishpur	Sushanta Chowdhury		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Cabinet Minister
	11	Mandaibazar (ST)	Swapna Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party
Sipahijala	12	Takarjala (ST)	Biswajit Kalai
West Tripura	13	Pratapgarh (SC)	Ramu Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	14	Badharghat (SC)	Mina Rani Sarkar		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA
Sipahijala	15	Kamalasagar	Antara Sarkar Deb
	16	Bishalgarh	Sushanta Deb
	17	Golaghati (ST)	Manab Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party
West Tripura	18	Suryamaninagar	Ram Prasad Paul		Bharatiya Janata Party
Sipahijala	19	Charilam (ST)	Subodh Deb Barma		Tipra Motha Party
	20	Boxanagar	Samsul Haque		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF	Died on 19 July 2023[6]
			Tafajjal Hossain		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Elected in September 2023 by-election[7]
	21	Nalchar (SC)	Kishor Barman		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Cabinet Minister
	22	Sonamura	Shyamal Chakraborty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	23	Dhanpur	Pratima Bhoumik		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Resigned on 15 March 2023[8]
			Bindu Debnath					Elected in September 2023 by-election[7]
Khowai	24	Ramchandraghat (ST)	Ranjit Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party
	25	Khowai	Nirmal Biswas		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	26	Asharambari (ST)	Animesh Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party		NDA	Cabinet Minister
	27	Kalyanpur-Pramodenagar	Pinaki Das Chowdhury		Bharatiya Janata Party
	28	Teliamura	Kalyani Saha Roy
	29	Krishnapur (ST)	Bikash Debbarma					Cabinet Minister
Gomati	30	Bagma (ST)	Ram Pada Jamatia
	31	Radhakishorpur	Pranjit Singha Roy					Cabinet Minister
	32	Matarbari	Abhishek Debroy
	33	Kakraban-Salgarh (SC)	Jitendra Majumder
South Tripura	34	Rajnagar (SC)	Swapna Majumder
	35	Belonia	Dipankar Sen		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	36	Santirbazar (ST)	Pramod Reang		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA
	37	Hrishyamukh	Asoke Chandra Mitra		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	38	Jolaibari (ST)	Sukla Charan Noatia		Indigenous People's Front of Tripura		NDA	Cabinet Minister
	39	Manu (ST)	Mailafru Mog		Bharatiya Janata Party
	40	Sabroom	Jitendra Chaudhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF	Leader of Opposition
Gomati	41	Ampinagar (ST)	Pathan Lal Jamatia		Tipra Motha Party		NDA
	42	Amarpur	Ranjit Das		Bharatiya Janata Party
	43	Karbook (ST)	Sanjoy Manik Tripura		Tipra Motha Party
Dhalai	44	Raima Valley (ST)	Nandita Debbarma (Reang)
	45	Kamalpur	Manoj Kanti Deb		Bharatiya Janata Party
	46	Surma (SC)	Swapna Das Paul
	47	Ambassa (ST)	Chitta Ranjan Debbarma		Tipra Motha Party
	48	Karamcherra (ST)	Paul Dangshu
	49	Chawamanu (ST)	Sambhu Lal Chakma		Bharatiya Janata Party
Unakoti	50	Pabiachhara (SC)	Bhagaban Das
	51	Fatikroy (SC)	Sudhangshu Das					Cabinet Minister
	52	Chandipur	Tinku Roy					Cabinet Minister
	53	Kailashahar	Birajit Sinha		Indian National Congress		SDF	Congress Legislative Party Leader
North Tripura	54	Kadamtala-Kurti	Islam Uddin		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
	55	Bagbassa	Jadab Lal Debnath		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA
	56	Dharmanagar	Biswa Bandhu Sen					Speaker
	57	Jubarajnagar	Sailendra Chandra Nath		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		SDF
	58	Panisagar	Binay Bhushan Das		Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA
	59	Pencharthal (ST)	Santana Chakma					Cabinet Minister
	60	Kanchanpur (ST)	Philip Kumar Reang		Tipra Motha Party