Ashish Kumar Saha

{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{similar names|Ashish Kumar (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ashish Saha | native_name = | image = | caption = | order = | 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 = {{birth date and age|1960|1|2|df=y}} | birth_place = | party = Indian National Congress | spouse = | parents = | children = | profession = | education = }}

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

In the 2018 assembly elections, he was elected from the Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |page= 50 |title= Assembly Since 1963 |access-date= 7 June 2016 |archive-date= 31 December 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191231040820/http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.tripurainfoway.com/news-details/TN/51730/tpcc-working-president-youth-congress-president-nsui-vp-two-parliamentary-constituency-presidents-resign-from-their-post-sudip-amp-co-certain-to-join-tmc-final-decision-may-be-taken-on-18th-april-ashish-saha-talks-to-tiwn.html TPCC top brass resign from their post]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/ECI_Main/Elec_Results2013/Tripura/8-%20Town%20Bardowali.pdf Town Bardowali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]</ref><ref>[http://myneta.info/tripura2008/candidate.php?candidate_id=314 My Neta]</ref>

==Political career== 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.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Six-Congress-MLAs-in-Tripura-join-Trinamool/articleshow/52637180.cms Six Congress MLAs in Tripura join Trinamool]</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/tmc-bjp-demand-removal-of-tainted-tripura-minister-sex-scandal-4441236/|title = TMC, BJP demand removal of Tripura minister over alleged sex scandal|date = 23 December 2016}}</ref>

In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from the Trinamool Congress who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.northeasttoday.in/recognise-ex-tmc-mlas-as-bjp-members-in-tripura-bjp/ |title=Recognise Ex-TMC MLAs as BJP Members in Tripura: BJP |access-date=23 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001722/https://www.northeasttoday.in/recognise-ex-tmc-mlas-as-bjp-members-in-tripura-bjp/ |archive-date=24 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2022 he rejoined the Indian National Congress.

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