Dilip Sarkar (Tripura politician)

Dilip Sarkar (1957/58 – April 1, 2019)[1] was an Indian politician from the state of Tripura. In 2013 assembly elections, he represented Badharghat constituency in West Tripura district in Tripura Legislative Assembly.[2][3]

Dilip Sarkar

In 2016, he was one of the six MLA from Indian National Congress who joined All India Trinamool Congress. Due to unhappiness towards party because of allying Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[4]

In August 2017, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party after they cross voted against the party lines in 2017 Indian presidential election.[5]

2018 Tripura election

In the 2018 election he stood from Badharghat again as BJP Candidate against CPI (M) candidate Jharna Das. Many CPI (M) leaders from Badharghat including former DYFI Bishalgarh Committee president and CPI (M) local committee member Bidhan Ch. Deb joined him. With their support he won the 2018 elections with a margin of 5,000 votes.[6]

References
  1. "Tripura BJP MLA Dilip Sarkar dies at 61". Newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  2. "Assembly Since 1963" (PDF). p. 50.
  3. "All India Politics". Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  4. "Six Congress MLAs in Tripura join Trinamool". Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  5. "Recognise Ex-TMC MLAs as BJP Members in Tripura: BJP". Northeasttoday.in. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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