Tripura landslide: CM is India's poorest, donates salary

February 28, 2013 16:42

Communist Party of India-Marxist Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has led the Left Front to a successive fifth term in power in Tripura.

What is best known about Sarkar is that he is one of the poorest candidates in Tripura -- he lives on a salary of Rs 5,000 a month, which is paid to him from own his party and has no house of his own.

What he earns as the chief minister, he gives to the party.Sarkar can arguably be dubbed 'the cleanest and poorest' chief minister in the country with personal property, movable and immovable, valued at less than Rs 2.5 lakh. More

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