SINGTAM, MARCH 16: Members of Shantinagar Gaon Sudhar Samiti has thanked HN Sharma, advisor of the Samiti and retired Divisional Engineer (Civil) for donating a land for towards the state government for the construction of the footpath.
The said footpath would join the National Highway with the Rani Khola Walkway at Shantinagar. It would be 100 feet long and four feet in breadth and had been donated free of cost for the betterment of the Shantinagar villagers, said the press release.
The press release further reads after the announcement of the donation of the land officials of Khamdong BAC that included SL Cintury, BDO, Deepa Sharma, JE, Santosh Kalden, AE, Hissay Lama, Panchayat Inspector and others were called upon and the proposed land was measured and surveyed.
A team of executive members led by LN Pradhan, PP Upretti, TB Pradhan, advisors of SGSS along with Krishna Chettri, Sunil Pradhan and Nirmal Pradhan, President, Vice President and General Secretary of Shantinagar Gaon Sudhar Samiti offered khadas to HN Sharma and his wife Renu Sharma for their generous contribution
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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