Pratima Bhoumik ;Union Minister of state (MoS) and the lady who breached impregnable left bastion could be Tripura’s Next CM made a case for herself as a contender for becoming the first CM of Tripura after winning Dhanpur seat – a CPM led Left Front bastion represented by former CM Manik Sarkar from March 1998 to 2023 – in the recently concluded assembly election.
Pratima Bhoumik emerges as strong contender for becoming Tripura CM
Bhoumik has also stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave identity crisis to Northeast which was suffering from an “identity crisis”.
Pratima Bhoumik is also known as ‘Tripura’s Didi’ or ‘Pratima Di’ had contested the Tripura assembly elections from Dhanpur in 1998and 2018 but had lost against Manik Sarkar both times. In the recently concluded elections in Tripura she won the Dhanpur seat by a margin of 3500 votes.
Early Life of Pratima Bhoumik
She was born to a school teacher father and is a science graduate and has three siblings. In her youth days, she used to play kho-kho and kabaddi at block, district and state level events. She also practiced farming in her native place at Baranarayan in Sonamura.
Tripura has for long time been a bastion for CPI (M) led Left front and ruled the state for four decades, with a gap between 1988 and 1993 , when the Congress was in power. Prior to 2018 elections, BJP had never won a single seat in Tripura before 2018, stormed to power in the previous election in alliance with Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT). This time, BJP has won 32 seats with a vote share of around 39%.
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Pratima Bhoumik’s political career
Pratima Bhoumik has associated been with BJP since 1991. She became a member of BJP state committee and was made chief of the party’s Dhanpur mandal in the subsequent year. She has also served as the Vice President of the party’s youth and women wing. In 2016 she became General Secretary of the party. In 2019 Lok Sabha election, Bhoumik defeated the then sitting MP Shankar Prasad Datta by a huge margin of 3,05,689 votes. Two years after being elected to Parliament in 2019 on a Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket, Bhoumik took oath as a Union Minister in July 2021.
On her speculation of being the next Tripura Chief Minister, Bhoumik stated,
“I am a dedicated party worker, and it is only because of the party that I am sitting in front of you. I contested the elections under the party’s instructions, and the party is my mother. So, one shouldn’t be speculating anything. I will do whatever the party will say.”
In the meantime, Tripura BJP Chief Rajib Bhattacharjee , has stated
“The decision will be taken in the legislative party meeting. Wait for 1-2 days during which we will make a decision. There is no dearth of leaders in the BJP and we have worked as a team in this poll.”
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