Manik Sarkar
| Manik Sarkar মাণিক সরকার |
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| 9th Chief Minister of Tripura | |
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Assumed office 11 March 1998 |
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| Governor | Tathagata Roy |
| Preceded by | Dasarath Deb |
| Constituency | Dhanpur |
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22 January 1949 Radhakishorepur, Tripura |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Spouse(s) | Panchali Bhattacharya |
| Residence | Agartala, Tripura |
| Website | chiefminister |
Manik Sarkar (Bengali: মাণিক সরকার Bengali Pronunciation: Manik Shôrkar; born 22 January 1949) is an Indian politician who has been Chief Minister of Tripura since March 1998. He is a Politburo Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). 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 fourth consecutive time.
Manik Sarkar donates his CM salary and allowances to his party, which pays him ₹5,000 (US$74) as subsistence allowances. His affidavit for the 2013 Tripura Assembly election revealed that he may well be the one with lowest monetary resources of all Chief Ministers of India.
Manik Sarkar was born into a middle-class family in Radhakishorepur, Tripura, on January 22, 1949. His father, Amulya Sarkar, worked as a tailor, while his mother, Anjali Sarkar, was a State and later Provincial government employee. Sarkar became active in student movements in his student days, and in 1968, at the age of 19, he became a member of one of the major political parties of India, the Marxist Communist Party. He was a candidate of the Students' Federation of India throughout his academic life at MBB College, from where he graduated with a B. Com. degree. During his first year at the college there came the turbulent times of the food movement of 1967, campaigning against the policy of the then Congress government of Tripura, and Sarkar threw himself headlong into the related student struggle. His vigorous role in this mass movement led him to join the Communists. Due to his early political exposure, he also became the General Secretary of the MBB College Student Union and was also made the Vice President of the Students' Federation of India. In 1972, at the early age of 23, he joined the State Committee of the Communist (Marxist) Party.
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