Ex-CM Manik Sarkar to not contest 2023 assembly polls; CPIM to contest for 43 seats, Congress for 13 seats

Four-time chief minister and CPIM leader Manik Sarkar will not contest assembly polls of 2023. Left parties and Congress has stitched seat sharing in 60 member Tripura assembly wherein the Left parties will contest 43 seats while Congress will contest 13 seats.

CPI(M) didn't give tickets to the four times chief minister from 1998 to 2018. The party sources stated Sarkar will serve the party and will lead the campaign all over the state.

Left parties have fielded as many as 24 new faces. As many as eight sitting MLAS were dropped. While CPIM will contest 43 seats, Congress 13 seats, CPI, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Bloc and Independent one each.


Six time MLA Badal Chowdhury is also dropped. Sarkar has been contesting from Dhanpur. Koushik Chanda is fielded from this seat.

Congress in 2013 had a vote share of 45.75 percent and won 10 seats, in 2018 the grand old party could not win a single seat.

The BJP along with its ally IPFT routed the Left Front in Tripura in 2018. In the 60-member Tripura assembly, BJP won 36 seats and Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) eight while the CPIM, secured 16 seats.