Agartala, Dec 9 (TIWN) A day after Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's announcement to take people's verdict through a public meeting about his continuance in the post of CM, a large number of BJP ministers and MLAs met him on Wednesday night to reiterate their support for him.

BJP’s central observer Vinod Kumar Sonkar reportedly told the media that he and Deb have spoken to BJP national President J.P. Nadda on the issue.  “The CM (Deb) should serve the people of Tripura. If there are any issues, the party will look into them,” Sonkar said, as quoted by the media.  Senior BJP leader and party MLA Ratan Chakraborty, while coming out of the Chief Minister’s official residence here, told the media that majority of the 36 BJP MLAs met Deb and expressed their whole-hearted support to his leadership.  Education and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath said that Deb is a very positive minded Chief Minister, unlike the previous nine other CMs, including CPI-M’s Manik Sakar (1998-2018) and the first Chief Minister of the state Sachindra Lal Singh (Congress, 1963-1971).