Manik Sarkar

Manik Sarkar ( Bengali: Manik Sarkar মানিক সরকার; born January 22, 1949 in Radhakishorepur, Tripura ) is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist). Since 1998 he has been Chief Minister of the Indian state of Tripura.

Life

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

1983 Sarkar was the first time in the Tripura Legislative Assembly elected in the constituency Agartala, but dropped out after one term in 1988 again. Since 1998 he has won every election about his new constituency in the district of West Tripura Dhanpur a seat in Parliament and is since March 11 1998 as the successor of Dasarath Deb Chief Minister of Tripura. Sector dominated by tribal population of Tripura State continued his government on the promotion of small-scale structures, especially the cultivation of rubber, which Tripura made ​​it 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 was - unlike his last CPI ( M) comrades in Kerala and West Bengal - confirmed in office of the Chief Minister.

Manik Sarkar is a member of the Politburo and the Central Committee of his party. He donates his Chief Ministerial salary together with allowances of his party and receives from this a monthly allowance of 5000 rupees. His affidavit of his property at the time of elections to Parliament Tripuras in 2013 reported from a cash and bank assets of only 10,800 rupees ( about 150 euros), his reputation as the poorest and humblest Chief Minister confirmed. Sarkar is married and has no children.