Birajit Sinha

Birajit Sinha joined student politics at the age of 17 in 1969, and has been an active member of Indian National Congress since 1972. He was appointed president of Tripura State Youth Congress in 1978 and continued in the role until 1990. He also served as a Cabinet Minister in Tripura from 1988 to 1993. He held a number of leadership roles in Indian National Congress, including membership of the National Council of Indian Youth Congress and the All India Congress Committee.

He was first elected as a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 1988 and was a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1993. He was again elected in 1998 and was Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Tripura Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2000. In 2003 Legislative Assembly elections he was the State Congress President and the chief ministerial candidate of INC where he was re-elected from his seat but the party couldn't get the majority.

In 2008 Legislative Assembly elections 2013 Legislative Assembly elections, he was re-elected to represent Kailashahar constituency.^[2] He was appointed the President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee on 9 January 2015.

He was again appointed as the President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee in 2021 becoming the only state leader to be given the charge of President Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee for 3 terms.

In 2023 Legislative Assembly elections he contested from Kailashahar and won with 9686 votes against BJP rival securing the highest margin ever recorded from the constituency. He is representing Kailashahar for the 6th term, which is also highest number of representation in the constituency by an individual.

On 6 May 2025, he was appointed as the Congress Legislative Party Leader of Tripura Legislative Assembly.^[3] He is also the member of Business Advisory Committee in Tripura Legislative Assembly.^[4]

Countries Visited : Visited Oman in 1983 (as a member of Indian delegation to attend international Youth Festival), Visited China in 1985 ( as a member of Indian delegation to attend International Youth Festival)

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Year	Party		Constituency	Opponent			Result	Margin
1988		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		Communist Party of India (Marxist	Tapan Chakraborty	won	739
1998		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		Communist Party of India (Marxist	Tapan Chakrabarty	Won	1,027
2003		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		Communist Party of India (Marxist	Muhammad Khadim	Won	2,001
2008		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		Communist Party of India (Marxist	Jayanta Chakrabarty	Won	931
2013		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		Communist Party of India (Marxist	Mabashar Ali	Won	485
2023		Indian National Congress)	Kailashahar		BJP	Mabashar Ali	Won	9,686

Birajit Sinha is engaged with various social activities. He is the Founder President of ASHRAY – a registered social voluntary organisation working on the program areas of healthcare, welfare and national development. He is also involved with health camps and blood donation camps in rural and remote tribal areas. He is the Vice President of the Committee for National Integration, a national based organisation that promotes national integration and communal harmony. He was awarded the Rashtriya Ekta Puraskar in 2000 for outstanding contributions to communal harmony in Tripura.^[6][7]

On several occasions, Birajit Sinha has demanded for a railway station in Kailashahar as well as the reopening of Airport in Kailashahar. He has constantly raised matters of his constituency in and outside the Assembly.^[8]

Birajit Sinha has raised many corruption issues in Tripura. Birajit Sinha, laid a daylong siege around the NRHM office in Kailasahar in October 2014 where irregularities of 32 crores was unearthed.^[9]

In early 2025, Birajit Sinha raised the issue of illegal embankment built by Bangladesh around Tripura Borders in the Tripura Legislative Assembly after which the central government and state government stepped in to take action. His initiative as an MLA was crucial in handling the international border matter.^[10]

In December 2025, an FIR was registered against Tripura Cabinet Minister Tinku Roy who was alleged to have forged his educational qualifications and hid his criminal cases in his election affidavit in 2023.^[11]