Manik Sarkar

Manik Sarkar
Member of Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
In office 11 October 1998 – 6 April 2025
Leader of the Opposition in Tripura
In office 9 March 2018 – 2 March 2023
Governor	Satyadev Narayan Arya Ramesh Bais Kaptan Singh Solanki Tathagata Roy
Preceded by	Ratan Lal Nath
Succeeded by	Animesh Debbarma
Chief Minister of Tripura
In office 11 March 1998 – 8 March 2018
Governor	Siddheswar Prasad Krishna Mohan Seth Dinesh Nandan Sahay Kamla Beniwal D.Y. Patil Devanand Konwar Vakkom Purushothaman Padmanabha Acharya Tathagata Roy
Preceded by	Dasarath Deb
Succeeded by	Biplab Kumar Deb
Tripura State Secretary of the CPI(M)
In office 1993–1998
Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura
In office March 1998 – 2 March 2023
Preceded by	Samar Choudhury
Succeeded by	Pratima Bhowmik
Constituency	Dhanpur
In office 1983–1988
Preceded by	Ajoy Biswas
Succeeded by	Bibhu Kumari Devi
Constituency	Agartala
Personal details
Born	(1949-01-22) 22 January 1949 (age 76) Udaipur, Tripura State, India (now Tripura, India)
Political party	CPI(M)
Spouse	Panchali Bhattacharya
Cabinet	Fourth Sarkar ministry

Manik Sarkar (born 22 January 1949) is an Indian communist politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tripura from March 1998 to March 2018. He is a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).^[1][2] In March 2008, he was sworn in as leader of Left Front, the Tripura coalition government.^[3] In assembly elections held in 2013, he became the chief minister for the fourth consecutive time. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Tripura Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2023.