Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, who was elected to the State Assembly in the recently held Assembly bypoll will soon travel to New Delhi to submit his resignation as a Member of the Rajya Sabha to the Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha and complete formalities, State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said.
Dr. Saha did not take oath as a MLA on Tuesday, but two other newly elected BJP legislators, Malina Debnath and Swapna Das, and Sudip Roy Barman of the Congress, were administered the oath by the the Assembly Speaker. According to the provisions, an elected member has to take oath within 14 days from the day of the declaration of the result.
“The Chief Minister will first resign from Rajya Sabha and then take oath as an MLA. It will happen within the stipulated 14 days,” Mr. Chakraborty told The Hindu.
