Sikkim Krantikari Morcha

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (S.K.M)
सिक्किम क्रान्तिकारी मोर्चा
Chairperson Prem Singh Tamang
Founder Prem Singh Tamang
Founded 4 February 2013
Headquarters Gangtok, Sikkim
Ideology Democratic socialism
Colours Red  
ECI Status Registered Party[1]
Seats in Lok Sabha
0 / 545
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in the Legislative Assembly
3 / 32
Election symbol
Website
sikkimkrantikarimorcha.in

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) (Nepali: सिक्किम क्रान्तिकारी मोर्चा; translation: Sikkim Revolutionary Front) is a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim. On February 4, 2013, SKM was established at Soreng, a western city of Sikkim. Bharti Sharma was elected the Working President of SKM who is the first female leader of political party in Sikkim.

Prem Singh Tamang alias P.S. Golay was the Member of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, was one of the prominent figures of Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), and was the Minister in the Government of Sikkim. But since December 2009 he had started to criticize to Pawan Kumar Chamling who is the President of SDF and the chief minister of Sikkim.[2]

In September 2013 P.S. Golay formally seceded from SDF, and became the Party President of SKM.[3][4]

2014 assembly election

SKM contested assembly election from all 32 constituencies which were held on April 12, 2014.[5] SKM won 10 seats and became the second large party and opposition in Sikkim Legislative Assembly. They secured 40.8% votes in election. The former Chief Minister of Sikkim Nar Bahadur Bhandari gave his unconditional support to SKM party withdrawing his party Sikkim Sangram Parishad for participation in elections, 2014 and played active role during campaigning phase of SKM party. Likely Former Chief Minister of Sikkim B. B. Gurung shown his support to SKM party, resigning from ruling SDF party.[6][7]

For the by-poll of Sikkim Legislative Assembly which were held September 13, 2014, SKM established the alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and supported Bikash Basnet who was a candidate of BJP.[8]

Frontal Organisation

Members of State Legislative Assembly elected in 2014 General Elections from SKM

Candidates of SKM in 2014 General Elections

SKM Candidate List, Election 2014 :

Beside winning of ten seats, SKM candidates stood runners up position from rest of the twenty-two seats of State Legislative Assembly and One Seat of Lok Sabha. SKM is only major opposition party in Sikkim and also holds second largest party inside the state legislative house of Sikkim with its ten members.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Himalayan Mirror, February 5, 2013, p.1. (pdf)
  3. ↑ Golay says bye to SDF, finallyThe Telegraph, September 4, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Why Sikkim is more excited about assembly polls than Lok Sabha elections | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  5. ↑ "Why Sikkim is more excited about assembly polls than Lok Sabha elections?". DNA. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  6. ↑ SDF sweeps Sikkim pollsBusiness Standard, May 17, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Partywise assembly election result status". ECI. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16.
  8. ↑ Voting starts for Sikkim assembly seatThe Economic Times, September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014. Basnet was a SKM candidate on the Sikkime Legislative Assembly Election of April 2014.
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