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Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura
Manik Sarkar is the current Chief Minister of Tripura and a Polit Bureau Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Manik Sarkar Manik Sarkar is the current Chief Minister of Tripura. He has been the Chief Minister of Tripura since March 1998. This prominent leader of Students Federation of India is governing Tripura in a coalition named the Left Front. Manik Sarkar swore in his oath on 10th March 2008 and headed the sixth Left Front government. He is a Polit Bureau Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Early Life of Manik Sarkar
Manik Sarkar was born on January 22nd, 1949, in a middle class family, at adhakishorepur, South Tripura. Manik Sarkar joined impulsively into the student`s movement during his early academic career. The movement was against the then Congress government of Tripura. Manik Sarkar has played a very important and dynamic role in this mass movement. Through this movement he was inducted into the CPI (M) party. In the year 1968, he became a member of CPI (M). At that time he was only a student of the premier educational institution of the state, the MBB College.

Political Career of Manik Sarkar
Manik Sarkar had become the General Secretary of MBB College Student`s Union. Sarkar was nominated as the SFI candidate. Subsequently he also held the post of SFI State Committee Secretary and of Vice President of the all India Committee of SFI in speedy progression. From University of Calcutta, he acquired a Degree in Commerce. Sarkar was selected a member of the CPI (M) State Committee in the year 1972, and was seated into the party state Secretariat in the year 1978. In that very same year the Left Front government for the first time had assumed office.

In the year 1985, Manik Sarkar became a member of the party Central Committee, at the 12th Party Congress held in 1985. In 1980, his first stretch as an MLA geared up. In a bye-election of the State Assembly, at that time he was elected as a CPI (M) candidate from Agartala Town constituency. Sarkar became the State Left Front Convener and the State Secretary of the CPI (M). He has been elected from the Dhanpur Assembly Constituency in the Tripura Legislative elections in 1998, under Sonamura Sub - Division, West Tripura. Manik Sarkar became member of the CPI (M) politburo in 1998.
Shri Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura, CALLS ON  Thiru T. R. Baalu, Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & HIGHWAYS  ON 28TH JULY 2006 TO DISCUSS the development of road sector in the STATE.jpg
He created political history in Tripura by becoming Chief Minister for third straight term. He contested Assembly Elections for the fifth time since 1981 and won from Dhanpur in west Tripura for the third consecutive time.

Personal Life of Manik Sarkar
Manik Sarkar is married to his wife Panchali Bhattacharjee, who is an officer of the Central Social Welfare Board, which is a Government of India undertaking. Sarkar, the 59-year-old Marxist, is a non-smoker and teetotaller who live a very modest life.

(Last Updated on : 8/12/2011)
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