# Ashish Kumar Saha

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{{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   =
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| order         = 
| office        = [President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee](/source/Tripura_Pradesh_Congress_Committee)
| term_start    = 17 June 2023
| predecessor   = [Birajit Sinha](/source/Birajit_Sinha)
| office1       = [Member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly](/source/Tripura_Legislative_Assembly)
| constituency1 = [Town Bordowali](/source/Town_Bordowali_Assembly_constituency)
| term_start1   = 2009
| term_end1     = 2022
| predecessor1  = [Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar](/source/Sudhir_Ranjan_Majumdar)
| successor1    = [Manik Saha](/source/Manik_Saha)
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1960|1|2|df=y}}
| birth_place   = 
| party         = [Indian National Congress](/source/Indian_National_Congress)
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}}

'''Ashish Kumar Saha''' is an Indian politician from [Tripura](/source/Tripura), India. He is currently serving as President of the [Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee](/source/Tripura_Pradesh_Congress_Committee).

In the 2018 assembly elections, he was elected from the [Town Bardowali](/source/Town_Bordowali_Assembly_constituency) constituency in [West Tripura](/source/West_Tripura) in [Tripura Legislative Assembly](/source/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](/source/Indian_National_Congress) who joined [Trinamool Congress](/source/Trinamool_Congress), due to dissatisfaction over the INC allying with the [Communist Party of India (Marxist)](/source/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)) in the [2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Trinamool_Congress) who joined the [Bharatiya Janata Party](/source/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](/source/Indian_National_Congress).

==References==
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Category:People from West Tripura district
Category:Living people
Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Tripura
Category:Trinamool Congress politicians from Tripura
Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Tripura
Category:Tripura MLAs 2018–2023
Category:Tripura MLAs 2008–2013
Category:Tripura MLAs 2013–2018
Category:1960 births

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