   manik sarkar ( bengali pronunciation: manik shÃ´rkar; 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).list of politburo members from the 7th (1964) to the 18th congress(2005)list of politburo and central committee members elected on the 19th congress in march 2008, he was sworn in as leader of left front, the tripura coalition government.6th left front govt assumes office 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  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. ==early life and background== manik sarkar was born into a middle-class family in radhakishorepur, near udaipur, tripura, on january 22, 1949.{{cite web|title=manik sarkar: chief minister (cm) of tripura|url=http
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