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Tripura CM finally says ‘Welcome America’ to last communist baston of India : Manik Sarkar’s dual-face exposed as ‘Anti-USA(?)’ CPI-M Govt jumps into action to please US Consulate General with ‘Rabindra Sangeet’ diplomacy
TIWN Oct 24, 2016
Tripura CM finally says ‘Welcome America’ to last communist baston of India : Manik Sarkar’s dual-face exposed as ‘Anti-USA(?)’ CPI-M Govt jumps into action to please US Consulate General with ‘Rabindra Sangeet’ diplomacy
PHOTO : US Consulate General Craig Hall meeting Tripura CM Manik Sarkar at State Secretariat. TIWN File Photo

AGARTALA, Oct 24 ( TIWN Exclusive): CPI-M Politburo member & Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar runs his Govt with a dictator’s hammer to such precision that even a mighty IAS officer or a Minister cannot operate independently without master’s signal. In a bizarre turn, Manik Govt hosting a musical night on Monday(Oct 24) evening at Agartala to please US Govt Consulate General Craig Hall. After Modi Govt curtailed central funding of various projects from 2014 due to CPI-M’s rampant corruption, so Manik Sarkar led Tripura CPI-M taken up new avenues to attract foreign funding into State so that major portion of those funds can be diverted into CPI-M’s cash-reserve. Otherwise why Manik Sarkar’s ICAT Dept will spend lakhs of rupees to entertain U.S. Consulate General Craig Hall in Rabindra Bhavan on Monday ? What is Manik Sarkar’s interest in arranging a ‘Rabindra Sangeet’ cultural show with Tripura & outside artistes just for the sake of pleasing Craig Hall as US Consulate General’s wife Meeryung Hall is a ‘Rabindra-Sangeet’ lover ?

CPI-M never bothered to welcome any American officials in Tripura for past 18 years, neither CM was courteous enough to even meet former US Consul Generals like Helen LaFave ( Craig Hall’s predecessor ) in 2014, so other than cash-hungry CPI-M’s dire need of funds, what else caused Manik Sarkar to make a volte-face 180 degree turn on America ? 

This is something that the mighty US must count as one of its siginificant diplomatic victory in communist Tripura at a time when it is losing time-tested allies like the Phillipines.

Tiny Tripura's Left government , led the CPI(M) , has organised an official musical evening with Meeryung Hall as the lead singer on Monday at Rabindra Bhavan.

Meeryung is the wife of the present US Consul-general in Calcutta, Craig Hall.  She sings Bengali songs including those penned by Tagore.

On 24th October, the state government's ICAT department has organised this musical evening of sorts at the Rabindra Satabarsiki Bhavan .

Consul-General Craig Hall will take the stage to deliver a speech as would Tripura's ICAT minister Bhanulal Saha which would mark the Manik Sarkar’s surrender of communist ideologies, anti-USA tirades  in exchange of funding-assurance.

Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who never misses a chance to warn the world about the 'dangers of US imperialism" , is neither listed as a speaker nor as guest of some kind in the programme.

Some may say his absence could be tactical but without CM’s nod and directions, ICAT Dept or pet IAS officials would have never dared to organize such a function to please US Consul General.

Sarkar has been a strong backer of Prakash Karat , who as CPI(M) general secretary stridently opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal and tried to bring down the Manmohan Singh government . 

So the US foray into such a state, albeit through the cultural route,  is no small achievement.

Specially at a time when the Chinese are making deep inroads into neighbouring Bangladesh on the economic front.

21 deals involving investment and aid for 28 mega projects have been announced during President Xi Jinping's visit to Dhaka before the BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach summit.  

CPI-M’s ideological compromise in welcoming America is another strong sign that Party is in dire need of funds, so begging bars no moral limits !!! 

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