National General Secretary (org) of BJP, BL Santhosh arrived in Agartala on Tuesday and held series of meetings on upcoming programmes, especially preparations for ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ as well as the on strengthening the party organization in Tripura, party sources said.

Soon after arriving in the city, he chaired the first meeting with BJP state office bearers at party’s headquarters in presence of Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, BJP state prabhari Vinod Sonkar, Union Minister of State Pratima Bhowmik and state general secretary (org) for Assam and Tripura units- Phanindranath Sharma.

The BJP central leader then held meetings with all the ministers, MLAs and other party leaders including Morcha and district presidents. Former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb also joined the meeting and shared the dais with the Central and other State leaders.

After attending the meeting, the Chief Minister said, various organizational matters and preparations for 2023 polls were discussed.

Meantime, several leaders including MoS Pratima Bhowmik and State Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath hinted that the piece of information circulated on social media relating to suspension of ex-Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb was false.

Speaking on the same issue, Education minister Ratanlal Nath said, “People are aware and it is not possible to misguide the people by circulating false news.”

Commenting on today’s proceedings, Biplab Kumar Deb said the visit of B.L. Santhosh would boost the organization at all levels– from Prishta Pramukhs to State Office Bearers.

He also said, the BJP government already fulfilled 99 per cent of the promises made in the vision document and the rest of the works would be completed before Durga Puja.

B.L. Santhosh is scheduled to hold another round of important meetings with the party leaders. There are indications that the new BJP state president would be finalized in the meeting.

Earlier, Santhosh was welcomed by the Union Minister of State and BJP state prabhari along with party’s state general secretaries- Tinku Roy, Kishore Barman and Papia Dutta at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, Agartala.

The Chief Minister then met and welcomed the BJP national general secretary at the State Guest House.