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Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI (M) leader Manik Sarkar served as the Tripura chief minister for 20 years after beginning his career in student politics.He won his first assembly by ...
Mar 3, 2018 · Sarkar is India's poorest Chief Minister, with a paltry Rs 1,520 cash in hand and Rs 2,410 in a bank account. In an affidavit submitted from his Dhanpur constituency for the February 18 assembly polls, the 69-year-old Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Politburo member declared his assets, including bank balance and immovable assets.
Jan 8, 2023 · Manik Sarkar said all sections of people, including farmers, workers and women, have been deprived under the BJP-IPFT regime in the last five years and the youths were the worst sufferers since they were deprived of employment opportunities despite lofty promises of 50,000 jobs a year.
On Saturday during the counting of votes, it became clear that the BJP and its alliance partner, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), had defeated the CPI(M), thus ending the Left Front’s 25-year rule in Tripura.
Manik Sarkar at an election campaign rally in Gandhigram in early February 2018. Sarkar is Tripura’s longest serving chief minister having been 20 years at the helm.(PTI File Photo)
Feb 21, 2023 · The man commanding the cadres' awe was none other than 74-year-old Manik Sarkar, who had come to personify the Communist movement in the northeast, running the sole CPI(M)-led government in a ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar on Friday criticised Tipra Motha for joining the BJP-led state government. Speaking to reporters at the CPI(M) state headquarters in Agartala, Sarkar said, “Tipra Motha founder (Pradyot Kishore) was about to start a fast unto death.
