TRIPURA CM MANIK SARKAR SUBMITS RESIGNATION IN AGARTALA

Four time Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar submitted his resignation to Governor Tathagata Roy today in Agartala, a day after BJP wrested power from CPI(M) in assembly election.

Walking out of the Governor's house, Manik Sarkar said, "I had come here to submit my resignation, governor has asked me to continue till the new chief minister is decided as it is a normal way. So will continue till then and I thank all the people who had been with me all these years." He however refused to take any more questions on this.

Even as the Left ceded power to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tripura after 25 years, voters in the Dhanpur constituency have convincingly sent their four-time legislator Manik Sarkar to the state Assembly yet again. For the first time in five Assembly elections, the man who has long been called India’s poorest chief minister will be part of the House without control over the government in Agartala.