More than a week after he was sworn in as a cabinet minister, Tripura BJP MLA Kishor Barman was allocated three portfolios – Panchayat, Higher Education, and General Administration (Political) – on Friday.
In a notification, signed by Chief Secretary Jitendra Kumar Sinha, it was stated that the three departments that were earlier with Chief Minister Manik Saha have been handed over to Barman.
“I have got the scope to work for the development of people living in gram panchayats and also development of education. I love to work with people and for their development,” Barman told the media after the portfolio distribution was made official.
Governor Indrasena Reddy Nallu administered the oath of office to Barman at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhawan in Agartala on July 2.
Barman contested and won the 2023 Assembly polls from the Nalchar Assembly constituency (SC) in Sepahijala district.
He has served as the national general secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad for three terms.
A postgraduate in Bengali from Tripura University in 2004, Barman, 44, was engaged with the BJP’s organisational work in North Bengal and served in party campaigns in Sikkim, Tripura, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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He became the BJP state general secretary in Tripura in 2021. Later, he quit from the post following the party’s ‘one man, one post’ principle after he won the Assembly polls.
