Manik Sarkar

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Manik Sarkar bigraphy, stories - Chief Minister of the Indian State of Tripura

Manik Sarkar : biography

22 January 1949 –

Manik Sarkar (born 22 January 1949) is an Indian Communist politician. He became Chief Minister of Tripura in March 1998, and is a Politburo Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). from the 7th (1964) to the 18th Congress(2005) elected on the 19th Congress In March 2008, he was sworn in as leader of Left Front, the Tripura coalition government. In assembly elections held in 2013, he became the chief minister for the consecutive fourth time.

Manik Sarkar donates his CM salary and allowances to his party, which pays him as subsistence allowances. His affidavit for the 2013 Tripura Assembly election revealed that he may well be the poorest of all Chief Ministers of India.