Ratan Lal Nath (born 9 April 1948) is an Indian politician from

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. He is the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Power and Election in the second Manik Saha Ministry. He joined BJP in 2017 after leaving National Congress.He became the MLA from Mohanpur Constituency by defeating

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Candidate Subash Chandra Debnath by a margin of 5,176 votes.

Controversy

* A video that featured BJP MLA Arun Chandra Bhowmik saying that Nath should be fired for insulting him as he went to speak about the removal of two professors from a college without offering a replacement went viral on social media. * After equating former chief minister Biplab Deb with

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, Netaji Subhas Bose, and

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, Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath has come under fire. Ratan Lal Nath stated people in

should consider themselves "fortunate" because Biplab Deb was born there, equating him with the great leaders. *

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, a Congress candidate, requested on Tuesday that Chief Minister

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and the BJP take action against Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath after accusing him in the Tripura parliament of intimidating a rape victim in order to deter her from reporting the incident to the police.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nath, Ratan Lal Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Tripura Tripura MLAs 2018–2023 State cabinet ministers of Tripura 1995 births Tripura MLAs 2023–2028 Indian National Congress politicians from Tripura Tripura MLAs 1993–1998 Tripura MLAs 1998–2003 Tripura MLAs 2003–2008 Tripura MLAs 2008–2013 Tripura MLAs 2013–2018 Leaders of the opposition in Tripura