Tripura Opposition chief and CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhary, 66, Sunday changed Manik Sarkar within the social gathering’s politburo, changing into solely the third communist chief from the northeastern state to hitch the CPI(M)’s highest policy-making physique.
Former Tripura chief ministers Nripen Chakraborty and Manik Sarkar had served as politburo members earlier than Chaudhury.
Manik Sarkar, 76, stepped down from his place as politburo member because the social gathering now has a 75-year higher age restrict for retirement from main management positions.
Jitendra Chaudhury, who was named CPI(M) state secretary in September 2021 after the demise of his predecessor Goutam Das, had served for 4 phrases as minister in successive Manik Sarkar cupboards from 1993 to 2014.
Chaudhury first joined Left politics by way of CPI(M) scholar wing SFI in 1971. A decade later, in 1981, he joined full-time politics and rose to the social gathering’s state committee seven years later.
First elected to the Tripura Meeting in 1993, he served as minister for rural improvement, forest, data, and know-how, amongst others, and was elected to the Lok Sabha from the East Tripura constituency in 2014.
Chaudhury can be president of Tripura Rajya Gana Mukti Parishad, the tribal wing of the Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist).
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On the twenty fourth CPI(M) social gathering congress held in Madurai on Sunday, M A Child was elected as the overall secretary of the politburo. The opposite members of the politburo are Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, B V Raghavulu, Tapan Sen, Nilotpal Basu, Md Selim, A Vijayaraghavan, Ashok Dhawale, Ramchandra Dome, M V Govindan Grasp and new inductees Amra Ram, Vijoo Krishnan, Mariam Dhawale, U Vasuki, Ok Balakrishnan, Srideep Bhattacharya and Arun Kumar, beside Jitendra Chaudhury.
Former ministers Manik Dey, Naresh Jamatia, Ratan Bhowmik, and lady chief Krishna Rakshit had been elected to the 85-member CPI(M) central committee from Tripura.
