Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian politician from Tripura, India. He is currently serving as President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee.

Ashish Saha
President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee
Assumed office
17 June 2023
Preceded byBirajit Sinha
Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
In office
2009–2022
Preceded bySudhir Ranjan Majumdar
Succeeded byManik Saha
ConstituencyTown Bordowali
Personal details
Born (1960-01-02) 2 January 1960 (age 66)
PartyIndian National Congress

In the 2018 assembly elections, he was elected from the Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.[1][2][3][4]

Political career

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In 2016, he was one of six MLAs from the Indian National Congress who joined Trinamool Congress, due to dissatisfaction over the INC allying with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the 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 the Trinamool Congress who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.[7] In 2022 he rejoined the Indian National Congress.

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