BJP MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl resigned from the Tripura Assembly on Wednesday. He will re-join his old party Congress on Thursday. He submitted his resignation letter to Assembly Secretary Bishnu Pada Karmakar on Wednesday as Speaker Ratan Chakraborty is presently not in the state.
Hrangkhawl’s resignation would be accepted by the Speaker once he returns to the state,” said Karmakar.
Earlier BJP MLAs Sudip Roy Barman, Ashis Das, and Ashis Kumar Saha , Burba Mohan Tripura had quit the BJP. Ashis Das was disqualified while others resigned. Roy Barman, Saha returned to their old party the Congress and Hrangkhaw will follow suit. Das joined TMC but later was expelled. Apart from that BJP’s ally IPFT also suffered similar desertion. IPFT MLAs — Mevar Kumar Jamatia, Brishaketu Debbarma and Dhananjoy Tripura also left the party and the Assembly and then joined IPRA Motha.
In all the cases the MLAs expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the parties were running the show.
Hrangkhawl’s resignation came just a month before the scheduled assembly elections. He was among the groups that had joined the BJP from Congress before assembly elections 2018. But the group led by Roy Barman was all along remained sceptical and aired their dissatisfaction. Hrangkhawl was expected to leave long before with Roy Barman but he apparently played with rope. Now, as it became he would not be given nomination this time from the BJP he quit.
He was elected to the Assembly from the Karanchara Assembly seat in Unakoti district. Hrangkhawl was elected to the state Assembly four times since 1988.
Hrangkhawl, said he quit the party and the membership of the Assembly on personal grounds.
“I would decide my future course of action very soon,” he added.
But the Congress leaders said Hrangkhawl would join the party on Thursday in a programme.
