Manik Sarkar, the 9th Chief Minister of Tripura, is the principal policymaking member of the Communist Party of India (CPI-M).
Manik Sarkar, the ninth Chief Minister of Tripura, is the principal policymaking member of the Communist Party of India (CPI-M).
Sarkar became the Chief Minister of Tripura for the fourth consecutive time in 2013 and currently is running for the fifth consecutive term.
The CPI(M) Polit Bureau member is the longest serving CM of Tripura who took over the power in the landlocked region of the north-eastern state in 1998.
Regarded as the 'Most Honest' and 'Most Clean ‘Indian politician, he also holds the tag of being the 'poorest CM of India'. He holds no shame in being regarded as such where most of the politicians have celebrity-like assets, rather he is appreciative of it.
Background:
Manik Sarkar was born on January 22, 1949, in a middle-class family. His father worked as a tailor and his mother was a government employee. Early political conceptions of his personality were viewed when Sarkar, at the age of 19, became a member of CPI(M), one of the major political parties of India. During his academic years of MBB college, he remained active in all the movements.
During 1967's food movement against the policy of the Congress government in Tripura, Sarkar emerged as a prominent leader in the student struggle and this vigorous role had led him to join CPI(M).
He graduated from MBB college with a B. Com Degree. Due to his early political exposure in his academic days, he was appointed as the General Secretary of the student union at MBB College.
Political Career
In 1972, at the early age of 23, he joined the State Committee of the Communist (Marxist) Party.
Manik Sarkar joined CPI(M) State Committee in 1978 when the first Left Front Government had administered in Tripura.
In 1980, Sarkar was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Agartala constituency.
Later he was also appointed as the Chief Whip of the CPI(M). In 1983 he was elected to the Assembly from Krishnanagar, Agartala.
When the Left Front government took control in 1993, Sarkar was appointed as the State Secretary of the CPI (M).
At the age of 49, he became a member of the Politburo of the CPI (M), which is the principal policy-making and executive committee of a Communist party.
He is one of the very few chief Ministers in India who are in the office for such so long.
Manik Sarkar donates his entire official salary to his party and takes only a small part of it as his monthly allowance. A corruption- free figure termed by most of his critics, Manik Sarkar continues to be one of the favorites of the people of the state.
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