List of speakers of the Tripura Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly^[1] is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Tripura, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Tripura. The Speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Tripura Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. The speaker is chosen from sitting members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the assembly by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of Speaker, the meeting of Tripura Legislative Assembly is presided by the Deputy Speaker.

Speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Seal of Tripura
Incumbent Biswa Bandhu Sen since 24 March 2023
Tripura Legislative Assembly
Style	The Hon’ble (formal) Mr. Speaker (informal)
Member of	Tripura Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Government of Tripura
Residence	Agartala
Appointer	Members of the Legislative Assembly
Term length	During the life of the Tripura Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)
Inaugural holder	Upendra Kumar Roy
Deputy	List of deputy speakers of the Tripura Legislative Assembly

Eligibility

• Being a citizen of India;
• Not be less than 25 years of age;
• Not holding any office of profit under the Government of Tripura; and
• Not being a Criminal Offender.

List of the Speakers of Tripura

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term[2]			Assembly	Party
1		Upendra Kumar Roy		1 July 1963	11 January 1967	3 years, 194 days	1st	Indian National Congress
2		Manindra Lal Bhowmik	Kailashahar	14 March 1967	20 January 1972	10 years, 315 days	2nd
			Chandipur	29 March 1972	23 January 1978		3rd
3		Sudhanwa Debbarma	Takarjala	24 January 1978	6 January 1983	4 years, 347 days	4th	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4		Amarendra Sharma	Dharmanagar	9 February 1983	4 February 1988	4 years, 360 days	5th
5		Jyotirmoy Nath	Kadamtala	29 February 1988	7 April 1993	5 years, 38 days	6th	Indian National Congress
6		Bimal Sinha	Kamalpur	14 May 1993	22 September 1995	2 years, 131 days	7th	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
7		Jitendra Sarkar	Teliamura	12 October 1995	10 March 1998	7 years, 146 days
				23 March 1998	7 March 2003		8th
8		Ramendra Chandra Debnath	Jubarajnagar	20 March 2003	3 March 2008	14 years, 358 days	9th
				17 March 2008	6 March 2013		10th
				15 March 2013	13 March 2018		11th
9		Rebati Mohan Das	Pratapgarh	23 March 2018	2 September 2021	3 years, 163 days	12th	Bharatiya Janata Party
10		Ratan Chakraborty	Khayerpur	24 September 2021	12 March 2023	1 year, 169 days
11		Biswa Bandhu Sen	Dharmanagar	24 March 2023			13th
source:[3][4][5]

Pro tem Speaker

List of Pro tem Speakers

• Niranjan Debbarma 2013
• Ratan Chakraborty 2018
• Binoy Bhusan Das 2023

See also

• Tripura Legislative Assembly
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairmen