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Publication: HaindavaKeralam.com
Date: November 1, 2008
URL: http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=7424&SKIN=C
Veteran Communist party leader from Tripura
resigned from the party accusing the party leadership of promoting caste based
discrimination, Lack of inner party democracy and autocracy.
Jiten Sarkar along with a group of party workers,
joined the newly-formed Dalit Samajtantrik Dal, recently floated by another
former MLA and leader of CPI(M) Nakul Das. Sarkar alleged that scheduled caste
people were dominated by members of other castes within the party and many
able leaders were ditched only because they belonged to the scheduled caste.
Sarkar has been elected from Teliamura constituency
for consecutive five terms since 1978 and was the speaker of the Assembly
for two terms from 1994.