Ratan Lal Nath

Ratan Lal Nath (born 9 April 1948) is an Indian politician from Tripura. He is the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Power and Election in the second Manik Saha Ministry.^[1][2][3] He joined BJP in 2017 after leaving National Congress.He became the MLA from Mohanpur Constituency by defeating CPI(M) Candidate Subash Chandra Debnath by a margin of 5,176 votes.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Ratan Lal Nath
Cabinet Minister, Government of Tripura
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2023
Departments	Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Power Election
Preceded by	Pranjit Singha Roy and Jishnu Dev Varma
Minister of School Education, Higher Education, Law and Parliamentary Affairs
In office 9 March 2018 – 2 March 2023
Personal details
Born	Ratan Lal Nath (1948-04-09) 9 April 1948 (age 77) Tripura, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (2017 - Present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (Before 2017)
Cabinet	State Government of Tripura

Controversy

• A video that featured BJP MLA Arun Chandra Bhowmik saying that Nath should be fired for insulting him as he went to speak about the removal of two professors from a college without offering a replacement went viral on social media.^[9][10]
• After equating former chief minister Biplab Deb with Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Bose, and Albert Einstein, Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath has come under fire. Ratan Lal Nath stated people in Tripura should consider themselves "fortunate" because Biplab Deb was born there, equating him with the great leaders.^[11][12][13]
• Sudip Roy Barman, a Congress candidate, requested on Tuesday that Chief Minister Manik Saha and the BJP take action against Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath after accusing him in the Tripura parliament of intimidating a rape victim in order to deter her from reporting the incident to the police.^[14]