The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats,and one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant faction.
The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra was a political party in the Indian state of Tripura. Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl was the President of the party. It merged with the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Alliance (TIPRA) party on 11 June 2021.
India has a parliamentary system as defined by its constitution,with power distributed between the union government and the states. India's democracy is the largest democracy in the world.
Tripura East is one of the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Tripura state in northeastern India. The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes. In the first elections in 1952 the seat was represented by Dasarath Debbarma.
The Tripuri are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking ethnic group of Northeast Indian state of Tripura. They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through the Manikya dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tripura for ~450 years until the kingdom joined the Indian Union on 15 October 1949.
Tushar Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress in Gujarat. He was elected to Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 2002 and 2022,and to Lok Sabha in 2004 and 2009.
Kariya Munda is an Indian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha. He has been a minister in the Government of India,serving in the governments led by the Janata Party in 1977 and by Bhartiya Janata Party from 1999 onwards.
Ramesh Bais is an Indian politician and is the 23rd governor of Maharashtra since 2023. He also served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2021 to 2023 and the governor of Tripura from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has served as union minister of state for environment and forests in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Bais has been elected seven times to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament,representing the Raipur constituency,including serving as a member of the 9th Lok Sabha (1989) and 11th to 16th Lok Sabha (1996–2019).
Mohan Sanjibhai Delkar was an Indian politician and tribal rights advocate,who was elected seven times as a member of Lok Sabha from Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency,in the Union Territory of Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu. He had been part of Indian National Congress (INC),Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) (JDU) at various times,and had also founded his own party Bharatiya Navshakti Party for some period.
Sachindra Lal Singh was a leader of the Indian National Congress and the first Chief Minister of Tripura state in northeastern India from 1 July 1963 to 1 November 1971. In 1977,he became the leader of the newly formed Congress for Democracy party. He was elected to the sixth Lok Sabha from Tripura West constituency as a member of the congress for Democracy.Sachindralal Singh,the first Chief Minister of Tripura,was a highly popular leader of Tripura. He was fondly called “Sachin-da”and was highly admired for his simplicity and amiable nature.
The politics of Tripura,a state in Northeast India,has been dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party,the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the Indian National Congress,the Tipra Motha Party,the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura and the Trinamool Congress. As of 2020,the Bharatiya Janata Party is the ruling party in the states's legislative assembly and also won the two parliamentary constituencies in 2019 Indian general election.
Vinod Kumar Sonkar is an Indian politician,a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Member of Parliament from Kaushambi,Uttar Pradesh,from 2014 to 2024. During his tenure as Member of Parliament,he served as the chairperson of the Lok Sabha parliamentary committee on Ethics. He has also served as a National secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Uma Saren is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Jhargram since 2014. She belongs to Trinamool Congress. A medical practitioner by profession,she is the first person to speak in the Santali language in the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Jitendra Chaudhury is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serving as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom. Previously,he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Tripura East before conceding defeat against Rebati Tripura of BJP in 2019.
Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha,elections to the Rajya Sabha,elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies,councils and local bodies.
Birendra Chandra Dutta was an Indian communist politician. He founded the communist movement in Tripura. Dutta was a member of the 1st Lok Sabha,the 3rd Lok Sabha (1962–1967) and the 5th Lok Sabha (1971–1977).
Ajoy Biswas is an Indian politician from Tripura,and former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Pratima Bhoumik is an Indian politician. She served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Second Modi ministry from 7 July 2021 to 11 June 2024. She is the first-ever resident from Tripura to become a minister in the union cabinet. In 2019,she was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party having defeated sitting MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress candidate Subal Bhowmick by a huge margin. She was also elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 2023 from the Dhanpur Assembly constituency,but resigned from the position only a few days later to retain her Lok Sabha membership and ministerial berth. Since 2016,she has also been a State General Secretary of the BJP Tripura unit.
The 2022 Indian presidential election was the 16th presidential election in India held on 18 July 2022 to elect the president of India. The incumbent president Ram Nath Kovind did not run for reelection. The election had a turnout of 99.12%.
