List of chief ministers of Tripura

Chief Minister of Tripura
	Emblem of Tripura
	Incumbent; Biplab Kumar Deb; since 9 March 2018
Style	The Honourable (Formal); Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Tripura Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Governor of Tripura
Appointer	Governor of Tripura
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly; Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Inaugural holder	Sachindra Lal Singh
Formation	1 July 1963
Deputy	Jishnu Dev Varma

The Chief Minister of Tripura, an Indian state, is the head of the Government of Tripura. As per the Constitution of India, the Governor of Tripura is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Tripura Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]

Since 1963, Tripura has had nine chief ministers. The first was Sachindra Lal Singh of the Indian National Congress. Manik Sarkar of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) served as Chief Minister of Tripura from 1998 to 2018; his reign was the longest in the state's history. The current incumbent is Biplab Kumar Deb, who is also the first CM of the state from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Chief Ministers of Tripura

Colour key for parties
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Congress for Democracy Indian National Congress Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party N/A (President's rule)

No	Name	Constituency	Term[2]			Party[lower-alpha 1]	Assembly (Election)
1	Sachindra Lal Singh	Agartala Sadar II	1 July 1963	1 November 1971	8 years, 123 days	Indian National Congress	1,[lower-alpha 2] 2
	Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	N/A	1 November 1971	20 March 1972		N/A	–
2	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta	Agartala Town III	20 March 1972	31 March 1977	5 years, 11 days	Indian National Congress	3[lower-alpha 4]
3	Prafulla Kumar Das	Bamutia	1 April 1977	25 July 1977	115 days	Congress for Democracy	3
4	Radhika Ranjan Gupta	Fatikroy	26 July 1977	4 November 1977	101 days	Janata Party	3
	Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	N/A	5 November 1977	5 January 1978		N/A	–
5	Nripen Chakraborty	Pramodnagar	5 January 1978	5 February 1988	10 years, 31 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	4, 5
6	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar	Town Bordowali	5 February 1988	19 February 1992	4 years, 14 days	Indian National Congress	6
7	Samir Ranjan Barman	Bishalgarh	19 February 1992	10 March 1993	1 year, 19 days	Indian National Congress	6
	Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	N/A	11 March 1993	10 April 1993		N/A	–
8	Dasarath Deb	Ramchandraghat	10 April 1993	11 March 1998	4 years, 335 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	7
9	Manik Sarkar	Dhanpur	11 March 1998	9 March 2018[4]	19 years, 363 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	8,9,10,11
10	Biplab Kumar Deb	Banamalipur	9 March 2018	Incumbent	2 years, 330 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	12th Assembly (2018 election)

This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
On 1 July 1963, the Territorial Council of Union Territory of Tripura was dissolved and the first Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Tripura was constituted. Members of the dissolved Territorial Council became members of the first assembly and permitted to continue for the remainder of their original five year term.
When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[3]
On 1 February 1972, State of Tripura came into existence constituted from the erstwhile Union Territory of Tripura.

Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Tripura as well.
Former Chief Ministers of Tripura. Government of Tripura. Retrieved on 21 August 2013.
Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.
http://www.thehindu.com/elections/tripura-2018/tripuras-fisrt-bjp-government-to-take-charge-on-march-8-manik-sarkar-resigns/article22924572.ece

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