title: Ashish Kumar Saha
text: # Ashish Kumar Saha
  
  Ashish Kumar Saha is an Indian politician from Tripura, India. He is currently serving as President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee.
  
  In 2018 assembly elections, he represented Town Bardowali constituency in West Tripura in Tripura Legislative Assembly.
  
  ## Political career
  
  In 2016, he was one of the six MLAs from Indian National Congress who joined All India Trinamool Congress, due to unhappiness with the party because of allying with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
  
  On 23 December 2016, Saha demanded that Tripura Forest and Rural development Minister Naresh Jamatia (CPI-M) be removed over a sex scandal that Jamatia was allegedly involved in.
  
  In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from All India Trinamool Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2022 he rejoined Indian National Congress.
  
  