The Pawan Chamling Backlash! Prem Singh Tamang Faces Legal Questions Over Elevation As Sikkim CM

Prem Singh Tamang went to jail in 2017 for embezzlement of funds and since then, he took Pawan Chamling head on. Tamang's party Sikkim Krantikari Morcha beat Chamling's Sikkim Democratic Front narrowly in the Assembly elections

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Updated: 14 Jun 2019 11:45 am

Pawan Chamling is camping in Delhi and meeting legal eagles to weigh his case against CM Prem Singh Tamang

SKM has a wafer-thin majority with 17 seats in the 32-member Sikkim assembly. SDF has 15 MLAs

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Can a person who served a year-long jail term be a chief minister in India? That is the question at the heart of a political drama unfolding in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, barely weeks after Pawan Chamling’s record run as chief minister was broken by his one-time protégée Prem Singh Tamang. Popularly known as P.S. Golay, Tamang became the chief minister after his party, the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), managed a wafer-thin majority with 17 seats in the 32-member Sikkim assembly. The Chamling-led Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) managed to win 15.