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India’s longest serving Chief Minister gunning for a 6th term in office

By himalayanreview
Files his nomination from Namchi and Poklok Kamrang

Namchi, March 25: India’s longest serving Chief Minister, Shri Pawan Chamling filed his nomination today in Namchi, South Sikkim for his candidature in the upcoming elections. Shri Chamling is contesting from Namchi Singithang and from Poklok Kamrang in the forthcoming Assembly elections.

Chamling, who has been serving the people of Sikkim since 1994, is the longest serving CM of India and is seeking a record sixth term for his party, Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) in the upcoming election.




For this, the SDF party has launched various campaigns over the past few weeks which are highly innovative, tech-savvy and people-centric incorporating campaign strategies adopted by the SDF to engage with the people. On 23rd March, the Party launched “Ma Pani Chamling” – the party’s campaign to build an inclusive manifesto capturing people’s aspirations for the upcoming Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha Polls. As part of the campaign, the SDF will attempt to engage 4 Lakh people across Sikkim to seek their suggestions which will be reflected in the party’s election manifesto. It will adopt various mediums in order to solicit feedback from the masses. The party will also seek suggestions from various subject matter experts and specialists through different outreach programmes. The exercise is in line with party's philosophy of "Janta Raj Ma Jantai Raja" (people are kings in a democracy). In effect, the people of Sikkim will set the agenda of the government.

Earlier, the SDF party had launched the “MyFirstVote4Chamling” campaign on the occasion of Losar (5th February) to directly seek suggestions from first-time voters – the campaign has received over 27,000 suggestions till now. The Party President and Chief Minister Pawan Chamling had recently launched the SDF Pariwar campaign, a 10-day long door-to-door campaign directly interacting with 1 Lakh households across Sikkim to understand their aspirations, the resolution of which will be the priority of the SDF government. The campaign, through 15,000 SDF Pariwar Sahyodhas (SDF Pariwar Ambassadors) has reached over 55,000 households, establishing connect with 2 Lakh people, in 6 days.

In the last 10 days of campaigning, Chamling will be addressing 10 rallies starting 29th March. The election to the 32-member Sikkim Assembly is being held on 11th April alongside the Lok Sabha election.
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