Manik Sarkar

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Manik Sarkar ( Bengali মানিক সরকার Mānik Sarkār ; born January 22, 1949 in Radhakishorepur , Tripura ) is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) . From 1998 to 2017 he was Chief Minister of the Indian state of Tripura.

Life

Sarkar comes from a family of Bengali Hindus from the sub-district of Udaipur in the district of South Tripura . He studied economics at Maharaja Bir Bikram College in Agartala until 1971 and was involved in the communist student movement there from the late 1960s. In the Students' Federation of India , he rose to Vice President. In 1968 he became a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and made a party career in the 1970s.

In 1983, Sarkar was elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly for the first time in the constituency of Agartala , but left after a legislative period in 1988. Since 1998, he has won a seat in parliament in every election through his new constituency, Dhanpur, West Tripura district, and has been Chief Minister of Tripura since March 11, 1998 as the successor to Dasarath Deb . In the state of Tripura, which is dominated by the tribal population, his government relied on the promotion of smallholder structures, in particular the cultivation of rubber , which made Tripura the second largest rubber producer in India after Kerala . In the parliamentary elections in Tripura in 2013, his party again received the most votes and Sarkar - unlike his CPI (M) comrades in Kerala and West Bengal - was confirmed in the office of Chief Minister.

Manik Sarkar is a member of his party's Politburo and Central Committee . He donates his chief minister's salary along with allowances to his party and receives a monthly allowance of 5000 rupees . His affidavit of his property at the time of the Tripura parliamentary elections in 2013 showed cash and bank assets of just 10,800 rupees (about 150 euros), confirming his reputation as the poorest and most humble chief minister. Sarkar is married and has no children.

The parliamentary election in Tripura on February 18, 2018 was lost for the CPI (M) and this marked the end of Sarkar's 20-year tenure as Chief Minister. He was succeeded in this office by Biplab Kumar Deb ( BJP ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tripura assembly since 1963 (PDF; 142 kB)
  2. ↑ Samudra Gupta Kashyap: Manik's Sarkar in The Sunday Express, February 10, 2013, pp. 10-11
  3. ^ List of the members of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the CPI (M) since the 20th Party Congress
  4. ↑ Manik Sarkar, the frugal CM ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in The Hindu on January 25, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehindu.com
  5. ↑ 'Homeless' Manik Sarkar possibly poorest Chief Minister in sify.news of February 11, 2008
  6. ↑ Manik Sarkar: Poorest CM in the country in The Times of India, January 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Sarkar, Manik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES সরকার, মানিক (Bengali)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Radhakishorepur , Tripura