SINGTAM, JANUARY 28: National Voters Day was observed at 20 Constituency Rongli Changeylakha Block Part No.4.5 and 6 at Rongli JHS on January 25.. Girdhari Dabari, HM Chandaney Primary School was the Chief Guest on the ocassion. Noween Dhungyal gave the welcome speech while Netra Pradhan spoked about the significance of the day. Distribution of EPI Card was held and the Chief Guest also took the oath on the occasion. Gopal Neopaney gave the vote of thanks. Lunch was also distributed among the participants and the guests.
Extracted from Pakistan Defence India’s “Chief Executive” in Gangtok wrote: “Sikkim’s merger was necessary for Indian national interest. And we worked to that end. Maybe if the Chogyal had been smarter and played his cards better, it wouldn’t have turned out the way it did.” It is also said that the real battle was not between the Chogyal and Kazi Lendup Dorji but between their wives. On one side was Queen Hope Cook, the American wife of the Chogyal and on the other was the Belgian wife of the Kazi, Elisa-Maria Standford. “This was a proxy war between the American and the Belgian,” says former chief minister BB Gurung. But there was a third woman involved: Indira Gandhi in New Delhi. Chogyal Palden met the 24-year-old New Yorker Hope Cook in Darjeeling in 1963 and married her. For Cook, this was a dream come true: to become the queen of an independent kingdom in Shangrila. She started taking the message of Sikkimese independence to the youth, and the allegations started flying thic...
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