Manik Sarkar and wife now live in CPM office

AGARTALA: Having vacated the CM’s residence after Left’s defeat in the Tripura polls, Manik Sarkar is now living — along with his wife Panchali Bhattacharjee, a retired central government employee — in a two-room flat above the CPM party office here. Sarkar, who doesn’t have a home of his own, preferred not to stay at the MLAs hostel.

“The party office has the basic minimum amenities. This is nothing exceptional. Most of our leaders lead a simple life,” Tripura CPM secretary Bijan Dhar said.

Sarkar, who had donated his ancestral property to his sister, had lived in the party office earlier too. Sarkar’s wife owns real estate in the city but landed in a controversy after handing it to a builder. Construction of the building is yet to be completed.


CM-designate Biplab Deb said Sarkar, as a former CM, is entitled to “good government accommodation” and other “protocol amenities”.