GANGTOK, April 15, 2013 On the auspicious occasion of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Jayanti, Governor of Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh extends his warm greetings and best wishes to the people of Sikkim. In a message, the governor said, “ A much celebrated son of the soil, B.R. Ambedkar’s greatest contribution to …

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Pakyong, April 11, 2013 The formation of Ward Level Development Committee and opening of ward level SDF party office is going on in full swing under Rhenock constituency. Six ward level SDF party offices were opened under Dikling Pacheykhani GPU on April 10. Inaugurating the party offices at Chalamthang, Dikling, …

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GANGTOK, April 9, 2013 Newly elected party president KB Rai on April 7 asserted that the Sikkim Gorkha Prajatantrik Party (SGPP) would be campaigning in a committed manner on the party’s founding demand of ‘one man, one vote, one value’. KB Rai was recently handed the SGPP charge by founding …

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Darjeeling, March 15, 2013 The Darjeeling Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court on March 14 directed that the five accused who had been arrested on Madan Tamang murder case be kept in the Darjeeling correctional home and not at the Siliguri correctional home. The five were absconding and had been named in …

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Gangtok, March 11, 2013: Two private vehicles in Soreng-Chakung constituency were torched by unidentified miscreants at the night of 9th March, an act which was termed as a political conspiracy by area MLA Ran Bahadur Subba. The vehicles belonged to Milan Rai of Soreng bazaar and Dawa Sherpa of Singling. …

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Press Release The Sikkim National People’s Party (SNPP) held a meeting on January 26, 2013. The meeting reiterated the party’s commitment to expose the violations in the Constitution which are affecting the Sikkimese people in a negative way and also to bring about awareness regarding the terms of the 8th …

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Gangtok, January 22, 2013: Former State OBC board chairperson Bharati Sharma has ended her association with the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party. She emailed her resignation from the party’s central executive committee post and primary membership on morning. I have emailed my resignation to the party, said Ms Sharma …

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Darjeeling, January 22, 2013: As the Telengana movement gathers movement, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung said that future course of action for Gorkhaland demand would be announced in a public meeting at Singmari on February 12. “If Telengana is declared as a State, we want Gorkhaland is declared …

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Gangtok, January 7, 2013 Rebel SDF leader Prem Singh Golay is entering the political field with his new party, to be launched within this month, campaigning for saving the Registration of Companies (Sikkim) Act 1961. Sources in Golay camp informs that the Upper Burtuk legislator would be campaigning across the …

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Gangtok, December 28, 2012: Objecting to the annulment of Registration of Companies (Sikkim) Act 1961 clause in Companies Bill 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha recently, the opposition political parties here have accused Centre and State government of working together to wipe out Sikkim’s identity. Sikkimese people would come out …

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