Changing the guard in the state has become BJP's routine under the guise of enjoying the majority in the assemblies and in a never-witnessed fashion of politics, the Central ruling party has changed the Chief Ministers in two of its ruling states this year, and still, BJP is considering replacing the Chief Minister in one of the crucial states. In what would become BJP's drama of converting the chair of the Chief Minister as the musical chair, Tripura is now on the line to have a new Chief Minister after Uttarakhand and Karnataka. 

Earlier this month, BJP fixed the political crisis in the tiny hill state of Uttarakhand by replacing Pushkar Singh Dhami in place of Tirath Singh Rawat as the Chief Minister. Days after changing the guard in Uttarakhand, the BJP has changed the Chief Minister in the Southern state of Karnataka. Earlier this week, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has resigned from the post after completing his two years in the office. 

While Yediyurappa has claimed that he had made an agreement with the BJP to resign from the post after completing two years, the Achilles heels that troubled him were the allegations of corruption and the intervention of his family into his administration. Several BJP leaders had slammed Yediyurrappa for making his son Vijayendra a proxy Chief Minister. These allegations had given more weight to the demands of his stepping down from the post and as the crisis had disturbed the rule in Karnataka, the BJP's Central leadership has asked Yediyurappa to resign from the post. 

Following his resignation, BJP has appointed Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai as the next Chief Minister. Being a close aide to Yediyurappa, Bommai has assumed the office of the Chief Minister on Wednesday. With the relief of changing guards to run the rest of the tenures of the assemblies in Uttarakhand and Karnataka, the BJP is now going towards east after north and south as the Central leadership is now considering replacing the Chief Minister in its Northeastern ruling state of Tripura. 

According to reports close to the developments, the parliament board of the BJP is considering changing Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. 49-year-old Deb has been serving as the Tripura Chief Minister since March 2018 after the BJP came to power by defeating the stronghold of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). While it has been reported that the BJP is trying to bring in a potent guard to barricade the efforts of Mamata's Trinamool Congress to surge in the state, it has also been said that Deb has been facing strong criticism from within the state unit of the party and from the civil societies.

In recent weeks, the BJP Central leadership has received plenty of violence and misgovernance in the state against Biplab Kumar Deb. As Tripura would go to the assembly polls at the same time as Karnataka, the BJP is kicking off the preparations in the Northeastern state to retain the rule after 2023. Recently, the BJP has unfolded a slew of changes in the state party unit in Tripura. The party has appointed BJP's West Bengal joint general secretary Kishor Barman as the BJP General Secretary in Tripura. Barman has performed well in North Bengal and he has been currently tasked with strengthening the party's base in Tripura. 

The reports say that the changes could have been made after senior BJP leader Sudip Roy Barman has moved serious complaints against the Chief Minister with a shocking note that Biplab Deb has been leading the BJP government in the state to the brink of disaster. Roy Barman, who joined the BJP from Congress, has been levelling allegations against Biplab Deb, and late last year, Roy Barman had travelled to Delhi along with the BJP MLAs who dissent against Deb to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda. Their ultimate motive is to give more weight to the complaints against the Chief Minister. 

However, Roy Barman's team hasn't met the national leaders owing to their incessant campaigns in the West Bengal assembly polls. Roy Barman, who was serving as the Tripura Health Minister, was ousted by Biplab from his cabinet two years ago. However, Barman remained at the party and it has been reported that Barman was also trying to topple the BJP government in Tripura after being expelled from the ministerial post. While he was organizing the dissident MLAs against the Chief Minister, the BJP has braced up a big blow after being defeated in the Autonomous District Council (ADC) elections in Tripura.

In 28 seats that went for the polls, the BJP has won only nine seats while the new political party led by Pradyot Manikya Deb Barman. What has been troubling the BJP is Mamata Banerjee's decision to plunge into Tripura politics and to take on the reign of the rival. One of the factors that would aid Mamata's political plunge is the pervasive population of Bengalis in Tripura. It must be noted that Mamata Banerjee has recently deployed a team from Prashant Kishor's IPAC to Tripura to understand the political landscape in the BJP ruling state and to test the magnitude of support for Mamata Banerjee if she enters Tripura politics.

After knowing that the IPAC team has arrived in Tripura, the Biplab Deb-led BJP government has detained Mamata's team and confined them in a hotel. The detention has put the BJP government on the national headlines, pouring more trouble on the Central ruling party. Several opposition leaders had voiced in favor of the IPAC team and demanded their immediate release. In a significant move, state Congress president Piyush Kanti Biswas has petitioned the court against the IPAC team's detention in Agartala. 

The government has later released the IPAC team and the team has notified Mamata Banerjee that Tripura would most likely search for a change in the 2023 polls and gave a sense of success for Mamata Banerjee after two years if her party takes a political plunge in Tripura now and not to forget, Mamata Banerjee has been displaying her as the strongest contender against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. The West Bengal Chief Minister has unfolded a tour to Delhi recently and met with the national leaders in her bid to form and lead the third front in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

As Mamata eyes a political prospect in Tripura at the backdrop of criticisms against BJP Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, the Chief Minister was summoned by the Prime Minister, Union Home Minister, and BJP National President last week to Delhi. The summon has shown that the BJP leadership has admitted the anti-incumbency wave against Deb in Tripura as he could not give good governance in the state. 

As BJP has 36 MLAs in the 60-member Tripura Assembly, the party's high command has begun to consider changing the Chief Minister to fix the political crisis. While there has been no official announcement from Deb on his resignation, the reports close to the developments say Tripura's Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Deb Barman, state BJP President Manik Saha, and senior BJP leader Sudip Roy Barman, who dissented against Biplab Kumar Deb are in the race to replace the incumbent Chief Minister.