Ashish Kumar Saha

For other people with similar names, see Ashish Kumar (disambiguation).

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

Ashish Saha
President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2023
Preceded by	Birajit Sinha
Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
In office 2009–2022
Preceded by	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar
Succeeded by	Manik Saha
Constituency	Town Bordowali
Personal details
Born	(1960-01-02) 2 January 1960 (age 65)
Nationality	Indian
Party	Indian National Congress

In the 2018 assembly elections, he represented Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.^[1][2][3][4]

Political career

In 2016, he was one of the six MLAs from Indian National Congress who joined Trinamool Congress, due to unhappiness with the party because of allying with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.^[5]

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.^[6]

In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from Trinamool Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party.^[7] In 2022 he rejoined Indian National Congress.