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Sikkim Democratic Front

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Lok Sabha leader
  
Prem Das Rai

ECI Status
  
State Party

Seats in Rajya Sabha
  
1 / 245

Founded
  
4 March 1993

Chairperson
  
Rajya Sabha leader
  
Hishey Lachungpa

Seats in Lok Sabha
  
1 / 545

Ideology
  
Democratic socialism

Sikkim Democratic Front

Headquarters
  
SDF Bhawan, Indira Byepass Gangtok, Sikkim

Political position
  
Left-wing politics, Centre-left politics

Alliance
  
North-East Democratic Alliance, National Democratic Alliance

Profiles

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Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) is a regional political party in the North East Indian state of Sikkim.

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History

The party was founded by Pawan Kumar Chamling in 1993. It has ruled the Sikkim state since 1994 with Pawan Kumar Chamling as the chief minister. The party consolidated its position sweeping the 1999 and 2004 state elections. It won 31 of the 32 assembly seats in the 2004 election. In the 2009 assembly election, the party made a clean sweep, winning all 32 seats. It also retained the lone Lok Sabha seat. In 2014 assembly elections, SDF won 22 seats and retained power.

In May 2016, after the BJP led NDA formed its first government in Assam, a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) was formed with BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland too belong to this alliance. Thus, the Sikkim Democratic Front joined the NDA led NEDA.

Frontal Organisation

  • Youth Wing
  • Student's Wing
  • Women's Wing
  • Labour Wing
  • Cultivators and Organic Farmers Wing
  • Ex-servicemen Wing
  • Scheduled Tribe Welfare Wing
  • Scheduled Caste Welfare Wing
  • Drivers Wing
  • Traders Wing
  • List of Chief Minister

  • Pawan Kumar Chamling: From 12 December 1994 to Incumbent
  • References

    Sikkim Democratic Front Wikipedia


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