67 per cent of the newly inducted ministers or 6 out of 9 in Tripura cabinet are crorepatis or multi-millionaires. Three out of nine or 33 per cent have criminal cases against them, a report revealed on Friday.
Jishnu Devvarma is the richest minister in the cabinet with assets worth more than Rs 11 crore, followed by Pranajit Singha Roy (Rs 5 crore plus) and Sudip Roy Barman (Rs 3 crore plus). All the three richest ministers belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Santana Chakma of BJP, the only woman minister in the cabinet, has the least assets with Rs 1.39 lakh.
Three of the nine ministers have declared criminal cases against them. of these, Ratan Lal Nath and Barman of the BJP have serious criminal charges of attempt to murder against them, reported Times Now.
In a positive, as many as seven out of nine or 78 per cent ministers are graduates while the remaining two are post-graduates.
In a positive, as many as seven out of nine or 78 per cent ministers are graduates while the remaining two are post-graduates.
The BJP has formed the government in Tripura for the first time in alliance with the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), ending 25 years of interrupted rule of the Left Front. Biplab Kumar Deb took over as the new Chief Minister.
Deb was unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party in the state, and stake claim to form a government in Tripura before Governor Tathagata Roy.