List of Chief Ministers of Tripura

Chief Minister of Tripura
Incumbent Manik Sarkar since 11 March 1998
Appointer	Governor of Tripura
Inaugural holder	Sachindra Lal Singh
Formation	1 July 1963

The Chief Minister of Tripura, a northeast 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) has served as Chief Minister of Tripura since 1998; his reign is the longest in the state's history.

Chief Ministers of Tripura

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

Assembly	No	Name	Term[2]		Party[lower-alpha 1]		Tenure
1[lower-alpha 2], 2	1	Sachindra Lal Singh	1 July 1963	1 November 1971	Indian National Congress		3046 days
–		Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	1 November 1971	20 March 1972	N/A
3[lower-alpha 4]	2	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta	20 March 1972	31 March 1977	Indian National Congress		1838 days
3	3	Prafulla Kumar Das	1 April 1977	25 July 1977	Congress for Democracy		116 days
3	4	Radhika Ranjan Gupta	26 July 1977	4 November 1977	Janata Party		102 days
–		Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	5 November 1977	5 January 1978	N/A
4, 5	5	Nripen Chakraborty	5 January 1978	5 February 1988	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		3684 days
6	6	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar	5 February 1988	19 February 1992	Indian National Congress		1476 days
6	7	Samir Ranjan Barman	19 February 1992	10 March 1993			386 days
–		Vacant[lower-alpha 3] (President's rule)	11 March 1993	10 April 1993	N/A
7	8	Dasarath Deb	10 April 1993	11 March 1998	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		1796 days
8,9,10	9	Manik Sarkar	11 March 1998	Incumbent			6599 days

1. 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.
2. 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 reminder of their original five year term.
3. 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]
4. On 1 February 1972, State of Tripura came into existence constituted from the erstwhile Union Territory of Tripura.

Notes

1. 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.
2. Former Chief Ministers of Tripura. Government of Tripura. Retrieved on 21 August 2013.
3. Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.

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