Tripura BJP MLA Surajit Datta dies after a prolonged illness

Sitting BJP MLA from Tripura, Surajit Datta, died after a prolonged illness.

He was 69 and elected from the Ramnagar Assembly Constituency in West Tripura district for a record seven times.

He was a former minister in the Congress-Tripura Upajati Juba Samity alliance government (1988-1993). He died at a Kolkata hospital on Wednesday midnight.


He is survived by a daughter and wife.

His body was brought here from Kolkata on Thursday afternoon and after paying tributes at the Civil Secretariat, Assembly, BJP party offices and after that a condolence rally with the body went around the Agartala city before cremation at the Battala mass cremation ground with full state honour.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, BJP President J P Nadda, CPI-M Tripura state secretary Jitendra Choudhury, state Congress President Ashish Kumar Saha and many other leaders condoled the death.

He was for a short period in Trinamool Congress before joining the BJP in 2017.

Before joining the Congress in 1979, Datta was a member of CPI-M’s youth and student wing.