Ashish Saha | |
Office: | President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee |
Term Start: | 17 June 2023 |
Predecessor: | Birajit Sinha |
Office1: | Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly |
Constituency1: | Town Bordowali |
Term Start1: | 2009 |
Term End1: | 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar |
Successor1: | Manik Saha |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1960 |
Nationality: | Indian |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian politician from Tripura, India. He is currently serving as President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee.
In 2018 assembly elections, he represented Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.[1] [2] [3] [4]
In 2016, he was one of the six MLAs from Indian National Congress who joined Trinamool Congress, due to unhappiness with the party because of allying with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[5]
On 23 December 2016, Saha demanded that Tripura Forest and Rural development Minister Naresh Jamatia (CPI-M) be removed over a sex scandal that Jamatia was allegedly involved in.[6]
In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from Trinamool Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party.[7] In 2022 he rejoined Indian National Congress.