AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): Even after sealed by CPI-M State Committee that IPFT led tribal votebanks helped BJP to unseat CPI-M in 2018-election, the Central CPI-M has once again done a major mistake by not introducing Jiten Choudhury as Politburo member. It was accepted in the last state committee meeting, after the poll-defeat, that Tripura CPI-M needs to strengthen its tribal vote banks and at the same a dynamic person is needed to become the CPI-M role model in Tripura. In the poll-result-review-meeting held at Melarmath from April 10 to April 11, where politburo Prakash Karat himself was present, it was granted by the committee that CPI-M needs more base in tribal vote banks.

CPI-M State Secretary Bijan Dhar also accepted that along with local corruptions took place in Tripura in the last decade, the BJP-IPFT alliance was another major cause of winning of BJP. After Manik Sarkar led massive defeat of the CPI-M in Tripura, it was expected that MP Jitendra Choudhury like figures will be highlighted either as the opposition leader inside the state or through a high position in the Central Committee.

But as like prior Party Congress meets, in 22nd Party Congress, CPI-M central leadership deprived Tripura by not inducting important State leaders like Jiten Chaudhury into Politburo especially when CPI-M needs a dynamic personality like him who is much popular and respected among both tribal and Bengali youths.

Many unimportant and nationally unknown leaders like Nilotpal Basu, then much old Biman Basu and others made their entry into coveted 17 member Politburo list. Whereas many nationally important faces of CPI-M like Tripura MP Jiten Chaudhury, who is also member of multiple Parliament Standing Committees was deemed unqualified by CPI-M Kerala Lobby.

Manik Sarkar always wanted to remain as the sole ‘king’ of Tripura CPI-M in Politburo and now inside and outside state he has received a certain position.

Prakash Karat never contested a Parliament or State election in his lifetime, same goes for Sitaram Yechury (Yechury chose Rajya Sabha route to Parliament so that no need to contest Lok Sabha elections). Highly unpopular and aged leaders dominating CPI-M's core politics, so future of the party is none other than complete wipe-out from political map. By not giving chance to younger generations in Politburo, CPI-M's mistakes have been continuing to drive the party towards extinction.

Newly Elected Central Committee

1. Sitaram Yechury
2. Prakash Karat
3. S Ramachandran Pillai
4. Biman Basu
5. Manik Sarkar
6. Brinda Karat (W)
7. Pinarayi Vijayan
8. Hannan Mollah
9. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
10. M. A. Baby
11. Surjya Kanta Mishra
12. Mohd. Salim
13. Subhashini Ali (W)
14. B. V. Raghavulu
15. G. Ramakrishnan
16. Tapan Sen
17. Nilotpal Basu
18. A. K. Padmanabhan
19. Penumalli Madhu  
20. V. Srinivasa Rao
21. M. A. Gafoor
22. Deben Bhattacharyya
23. Awadesh Kumar
24. Arun Mehta
25. Surender Mallik
26. Onkar Shad
27. Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami
28. Gopi Kant Baksi
29. G. V. Sreerama Reddy
30. P. Karunakaran
31. P.K. Sreemathi (W)
32. M.C. Josephine (W)
33. Jayarajan E. P.
34. Vaikom Viswan
35. T. M. Thomas Isaac
36. A Vijayaraghavan
37. K. K. Shailaja (W)
38. A K. Balan
39. Elamaram Kareem
40. Adam Narsayya Narayan
41. Mahendra Singh
42. Ali Kishore Patnaik
43. Basu Deo
44. Amra Ram
45. T.K. Rangarajan
46. U. Vasuki (W)
47. A Soundara Rajan
48. K. Balakrishnan
49. P. Sampath
50. Thammineni Veerabhadram
51. S. Veeraiah
52. Ch. Seetha Ramulu
53. Aghore Deb Barma
54. Bijan Dhar
55. Badal Choudhury
56. Rama Das (W)
57. Gautam Das
58. Hiralal Yadav
59. Shyamal Chakraborty
60. Mridul De
61. Rekha Goswami (W)
62. Nripen Chowdhury
63. Srideep Bhattacharya
64. Ramachandra Dome
65. Minoti Ghosh (W)
66. Anju Kar (W)
67. Hari Singh Kang
68. Jogendra Sharma
69. J. S. Majumdar
70. K. Hemalata (W)
71. Sudha Sundararaman (W)
72. Rajendra Sharma
73. Swadesh Dev Roye
74. Ashok Dhawale
75. S Punyavati (W)

New Members

76. Suprakash Talukdar
77. Arun Kumar Mishra
78. K M Tiwari
79. K Radhakrishnan
80. M V Govindan Master
81. Jaswinder Singh
82. J P Gavit
83. G. Nagaiah
84. Tapan Chakravarty
85. Jiten Choudhury
86. Muralidharan
87. Arun Kumar
88. Vijoo Krishnan
89. Mariam Dhawale (W)
90. Rabin Deb
91. Abhas Roy Choudhury
92. Sujan Chakraborty
93. Amiyo Patra
94. Sukhwinder Singh Shekon
95. Vacant (Woman)

Permanent Invitees

1. Rajinder Negi (Secretary, Uttarakhand state committee)
2. Sanjay Parate (Secretary, Chattisgarh state committee)

Special Invitees
1. V. S. Achuthanandan
2. Mallu Swarajyam (W)
3. Madan Ghosh
4. Paloli Mohd. Kutty
5. P. Ramaiah
6. K. Varadharajan

Central Control Commission

1. Basudev Acharia
2. P. Rajendran
3. S. Sridhar
4. G Ramulu
5. Bonani Biswas (W)

The first meeting of the newly elected Central Committee elected a 17 member Polit Bureau consisting of:

1. Sitaram Yechury
2. Prakash Karat
3. S Ramachandran Pillai
4. Biman Basu
5. Manik Sarkar
6. Brinda Karat (W)
7. Pinarayi Vijayan
8. Hannan Mollah
9. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
10. M. A. Baby
11. Surjya Kanta Mishra
12. Mohd. Salim
13. Subhashini Ali (W)
14. B. V. Raghavulu
15. G. Ramakrishnan
16. Tapan Sen
17. Nilotpal Basu