Official sources said that the 67-year-old legislator accompanied by TIPRA party chief and former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman submitted his resignation letter to Tripura Assembly speaker Ratan Chakraborty.
Deb Barman said that Burba Mohan Tripura along with a senior BJP leader Gauri Sankar Reang, also a former Deputy Speaker of the Tripura Assembly, would join his party today evening.
The BJP leaders, however, refused to make any comments immediately.
Burba Mohan Tripura is the fourth BJP MLA to quit the Assembly since last year.
Earlier Ashis Das, Sudip Roy Barman and Ashis Kumar Saha also quit the party and the Assembly membership after open differences with former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who resigned from the top post on May 14 following the instructions of the party’s Central leadership.
Das joined the Trinamool Congress last year and quit the party in May this year while Roy Barman, also a former BJP Minister, and Saha joined the Congress in February this year.
Roy Barman was re-elected to the state Assembly for the sixth time in the bypoll in June on a Congress ticket.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) MLA Brishaketu Debbarma also resigned from the Assembly in June last year and joined the TIPRA reducing the party’s (IPFT) strength to seven.
After Burba Mohan Tripura’s resignation, BJP’s strength has reduced to 35 in the 60-member Assembly.