AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Leaving aside the left front’s main architects in West Bengal and Kerala, veteran Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar shines as sole sentinel of Left Front’s last bastion in crucial 2014 Loksabha poll.By assuring the massive victory of CPI-M candidates of both the Loksabha seats in Tripura with record margin, 66 yrs old Manik Sarkar triumph again in the country.After assuming office as Chief Minister in March 1998, Manik Sarkar led the party in 16 major elections and in all the occasions, the party secured a brilliant victory pushing off the opposition to minority from state assembly to village Panchayats.

CPI-M leaders in Tripura believe Manik Sarkar has already probe his political excellence to lead the party for re-gaining the lost ground across India.

Referring to a news analysis of a leading US media, Deputy Speaker of Tripura assembly and another veteran CPI-M Pabitra Kar said, “Manik Sarkar is one of India's last Communists with political power and a finest example of practicing true communism right from his personal life to political glare.”

In the 36 years of attainment of statehood, Leftist is ruling the state for 31 years and uninterruptedly since 1993.

At the beginning all 36 counting halls were full of CPI-M cadres but gradually after announcement of upsetting result in West Bengal, the counting halls took a deserted look and the workers assembled in the party offices to watch trend of the result on television.

Similarly, poll debacle prevented Congress to confine in the party office at Agartala and in other place offices were remained closed since morning. Trinamool Congress also maintained low profile even after announcement of the result.

Though there was no wining fight for BJP, Congress and Trinamool Congress against Left Front in Tripura, all three have been in run for runners’ up in both the seats. 

“We were expecting second position in both the seats but definitely we shall review the result and resorted political against CPI-M with the direction of our supremo Mamata Banerjee,” said Trinamool Chairman Ratan Chakraborty.

However, BJP President Sudhindra Dasgupta alleged that they had been expecting much better result but blamed that CPI-M had joined hand with Congress and Trinamool to prevent BJP.

“Despite large-scale rigging, booth capturing and inaction of Election Commission over poll malpractices, BJP got a comfortable amount of votes in two-decade long left rule,” Dasgupta added.

Meanwhile, CPI-M Tripura state committee expressed satisfaction over the result in Tripura and reiterated that still left front is significant in Indian politics.

Reacting over devastating result in West Bengal, CPI-M State Secretary said, “Democracy was killed in the election in Bengal and this is not the true reflection of peoples’ mandate.”