In Tripura, the challenge for the chief minister is less from the alliance partners and more from his own party, the BJP.
Seventy-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manik Saha on Wednesday took oath as chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura.
Former Chief Minister Biplab Deb, whose sudden resignation on Saturday evening got Saha the top job, was present at the ceremony along with BJP MLAs and state ministers.
Party is above all. I am a loyal worker of the BJP. I hope I have done justice to the responsibilities that were given to me, said Biplab Deb.
'I was screaming at the top of my voice when my name was announced because I couldn't believe it,' Manik Paul tells Rajul Hegde.
High voter turnout was recorded in most of the seven assembly constituencies in six states where by-elections were held on Tuesday.
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