Facts you need to know about Biplab Kumar Deb on his birthday

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Chief Minister of Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb was born on November 25, 1971 in Rajdhar Nagar village, Udaipur, Gomati District, Tripura. He is an Indian politician and has been serving as the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura since January 7, 2016.

Deb completed his graduation from Tripura University in 1999 before shifting to New Delhi to join the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

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In the year 2017, he was elected the President of Tripura state unit of BJP after the party’s longest-serving state president Sudhindra Dasgupta passed away.

He started his political journey in 2018 by campaigning from the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) which was believed to be the base of the then governing CPI-M.

Biplab led the BJP to victory in the 2018 Legislative Assembly Election, by defeating the 25 year rule of the Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and took oath as the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura on March 9, 2018.