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Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb

# Tripura’s Chief Minister-designate Biplab Kumar Deb has been a long-time RSS volunteer.

#  48-year-old Deb is said to have played a crucial role in making some of the former Congress MLAs join the BJP last year.

# With the slogan “Chollo Paltai” (let’s make a change), Deb led the BJP’s door-to-door campaign that ultimately saw the BJP increasing its vote share to over 43 per cent  from just 1.5 per cent in 2013.

# Deb defeated CPI-M’s Amal Chakraborty in the Banamalipur constituency by a margin of 9,549 votes.

# Deb will be the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura succeeding Manik Sarkar.

# Born on November 25, 1971 in southern Tripura’s temple city of Udaipur, Deb had completed his graduation from Tripura University in 1999.

# He went to Delhi before he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a volunteer.

# From Delhi, Deb is said to have moved to Pune and Nagpur in Maharashtra where he attended RSS camps.

# He is believed to have spent much of his time at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur.

# Deb is married to Niti Deb, a State Bank of India officer, since 2001 and the couple has two children.

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