Chief Minister Sarkar: India's Icon of Honesty

She has never intervened in the Chief Ministers work, just once, very subtly 7 years ago, on his idea of going on morning walks on the streets of Agartala. His security officer who almost flipped asked Panchali didi to talk him out of it. And so she did by buying him a treadmill.

The CM practicing honesty is seen in the decision of Left Front's strategy for the February 2013 Assembly polls. At 63 he is the Tripura's longest-serving chief minister. He still believes the Left final frontier will return in West Bengal and Kerala. Not leaving Tripura as the final Left's frontier, as they received 41 percent of the votes in last polls in West Bengal. Does it mean there is a striving chance for good faith or just a surviving one?

At present Sarkar has to prepare for a difficult task of tackling the resurgent Congress headed by its new state President Sudip Roy Barman, 48, the son of former chief minister Samir Roy Barma, is sour about the lack of jobs situation in Left Front rule. He said “Over 40,000 posts are lying vacant in the state. No primary teacher has been appointed in 14 years of his rule”. On Sudip’s concern, Sarkar’s wife retaliates and said "Unemployment is Tripura's biggest problem. But it is not only our problem, it's India's” as per India Today.

Sudip has questioned Sarkar’s honesty saying it’s just a projection. He wants to know how Sarkar can afford an Ora spectacle worth Rs 60,000 or sandals for Rs 6,000, also the hundreds of white kurta-pyjama sets. Well how Sudip managed to estimate these figures are unknown, off course. He goes further with the attempts to reveal how Sarkar controls the ministers by blackmailing them after letting them involve in corruption. This way he erases most threat or challenges to his post.