Sikkim Krantikari Morcha supremo Prem Singh Tamang-Golay takes oath as the Chief Minister of Sikkim at Gangtok. Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya administers the oath of office & secrecy to Golay and his Council of Ministers during the swearing-in ceremony at Paljor Stadium on Monday in Gangtok .Golay has now assumed the office of Chief Minister of Sikkim for second straight term.Tamang won the elections from the Rhenock Assembly seat defeating SDF's Som Nath Poudyal by over 7,396 votes.
#WATCH | Sikkim CM-designate Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) to take oath as the Chief Minister for a second consecutive term shortly.
— ANI (@ANI) June 10, 2024
Visuals from Paljor Stadium in Gangtok. pic.twitter.com/LFm44bH39G
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) won 31 out of the 32 seats, thus sweeping the assembly polls in the Himalayan state while the opposition Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) was confined to a lone seat.This is the third time, Sikkim has witnessed a landslide victory of a political party as similar results were drawn by Sikkim Sangram Parishad and SDF in 1989 and 2009 respectively.In the 2019 assembly elections, the SKM won 17 seats, while the SDF secured 15 seats out of the 32 seats. SKM won 10 seats in 2014 as it faced its first assembly elections.
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