Manik Sarkar becomes Tripura CM for fourth time | ummid.com
India's second longest serving communist chief minister after West Bengal's Jyoti Basu (June 1977-Nov 2000), Sarkar, 64, led a coalition of the CPI-M and the CPI to a huge electoral win in Tripura, the only state the Communists remain in power after their electoral defeats in their long-held bastions of West Bengal and Kerala in the last national election.