List of speakers of the Tripura Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Tripura, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Tripura. The Speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Tripura Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. The speaker is chosen from sitting members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the assembly by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of Speaker, the meeting of Tripura Legislative Assembly is presided by the Deputy Speaker.

Speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly
Seal of Tripura
Incumbent Biswa Bandhu Sen since 24 March 2023
Tripura Legislative Assembly
Style	The Hon’ble (formal) Mr. Speaker (informal)
Member of	Tripura Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Government of Tripura
Residence	Agartala
Appointer	Members of the Legislative Assembly
Term length	During the life of the Tripura Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)
Inaugural holder	Upendra Kumar Roy
Deputy	List of deputy speakers of the Tripura Legislative Assembly

Eligibility

• Being a citizen of India;
• Not be less than 25 years of age;
• Not holding any office of profit under the Government of Tripura; and
• Not being a Criminal Offender.

List of the Speakers of Tripura

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly	Party
1		Upendra Kumar Roy		1 July 1963	11 January 1967	3 years, 194 days	1st Tripura Assembly	Indian National Congress
2		Manindra Lal Bhowmik	Kailashahar	14 March 1967	20 January 1972	10 years, 315 days	2nd
			Chandipur	29 March 1972	23 January 1978		3rd
3		Sudhanwa Debbarma	Takarjala	24 January 1978	6 January 1983	4 years, 347 days	4th Tripura Assembly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4		Amarendra Sharma	Dharmanagar	9 February 1983	4 February 1988	4 years, 360 days	5th Tripura Assembly
5		Jyotirmoy Nath	Kadamtala	29 February 1988	7 April 1993	5 years, 38 days	6th Tripura Assembly	Indian National Congress
6		Bimal Sinha	Kamalpur	14 May 1993	22 September 1995	2 years, 131 days	7th Tripura Assembly	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
7		Jitendra Sarkar	Teliamura	12 October 1995	10 March 1998	7 years, 146 days
				23 March 1998	7 March 2003		8th Tripura Assembly
8		Ramendra Chandra Debnath	Jubarajnagar	20 March 2003	3 March 2008	14 years, 358 days	9th Tripura Assembly
				17 March 2008	6 March 2013		10th Tripura Assembly
				15 March 2013	13 March 2018		11th Tripura Assembly
9		Rebati Mohan Das	Pratapgarh	23 March 2018	2 September 2021	3 years, 163 days	12th	Bharatiya Janata Party
10		Ratan Chakraborty	Khayerpur	24 September 2021	12 March 2023	1 year, 169 days
11		Biswa Bandhu Sen	Dharmanagar	24 March 2023			13th
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List of the Deputy Speakers of Tripura

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly	Party
1		Md. Ersad Ali Choudhury		1 July 1963	11 January 1967	3 years, 194 days	1st		Indian National Congress
2		Manoranjan Nath	Dharmanagar South Assembly constituency	21 March 1967	1 November 1971	4 years, 225 days	2nd
3		Usha Ranjan Sen	Radhakishorepur Assembly constituency	29 March 1972	4 November 1977	5 years, 220 days	3rd
4		Jyotirmoy Das	Belonia Assembly constituency	27 January 1978	6 January 1983	4 years, 344 days	4th		Communist Party of India
5		Bimal Sinha	Kamalpur Assembly constituency	11 February 1983	4 February 1988	4 years, 358 days	5th
6		Rati Mohan Jamatia	Bagma Assembly constituency	14 March 1988	16 May 1992	4 years, 63 days	6th		Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti
7		Gouri Sankar Reang	Santirbazar Assembly constituency	17 September 1992	28 February 1993	164 days
8		Niranjan Debbarma	Golaghati Assembly constituency	17 May 1993	9 October 1995	2 years, 145 days	7th		Communist Party of India
9		Sunil Kumar Chowdhury	Sabroom Assembly constituency	12 October 1995	10 March 1998	2 years, 149 days
10		Subal Rudra	Sabroom	26 March 1998	26 February 2003	9 years, 343 days	8th
			Sonamura	25 March 2003	3 March 2008		9th
11		Bhanu Lal Saha	Bishalgarh Assembly constituency	19 March 2008	28 February 2013	4 years, 346 days	10th
12		Pabitra Kar	Khayerpur Assembly constituency	18 March 2013	08 March 2018	4 years, 360 days	11th
13		Biswa Bandhu Sen	Dharmanagar	21 June 2018	13 March 2023	4 years, 265 days	12th		Bharatiya Janata Party
14		Ram Prasad Paul	Suryamaninagar	28 March 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 264 days	13th
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Pro tem Speaker

List of Pro tem Speakers

• Niranjan Debbarma 2013
• Ratan Chakraborty 2018
• Binoy Bhusan Das 2023

See also

• Tripura Legislative Assembly
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairmen