pawan kumar chamling has held chief minister office for longest period of time.
pawan kumar chamling has held chief minister office for longest period of time.
who has held chief minister office for longest period of time?
pawan kumar chamling
kazi lhendup dorjee was the first chief minister of democratic sikkim state from 1975 to 1979. the 1979 assembly election saw nar bahadur bhandari elected chief minister of sikkim.nar bahadur bhandhari held on to win again in 1984 and 1989. in 1994, assembly politician pawan kumar chamling became the chief minister of sikkim. in 1999, 2004, 2009,2014-2019 made him the longest serving chief minister in the country.2019 election result not declared.
sikkim legislative assembly
in august 2017, chaturvedi applied rti application to prime minister office, on 16 points which included information on quantum of black money brought back from foreign countries. by modi government and the amount of such black money deposited into account of citizens. during parliamentary elections, it was a major electoral promise of bhartiya janta party (bjp) to bring back black money from foreign countries and deposit rs. 15 lacs into account of every citizen. chaturvedi also sought information on corruption complaints against serving central ministers of modi government, copy of inquiry report and action taken on these corruption complaints. in addition, he had also sought information on various flagship schemes of modi government. initially, the prime minister office refused to give information on black money saying that it does not come under the definition of information and regarding corruption complaints against central ministers, pmo said that it was generic information. however, in a major setback to modi government central information commission (cic) in its order passed on october 16, 2018, rejected all these contentions of prime minister office and directed them to provide these information to chaturvedi within 15 days. however, in its response on november 12, the prime minister office said that though it had received complaints against various union ministers from time to time and which were duly examined also, however, to identify, examine and categorize each of these complaints, maybe "cumbersome exercise" and such an exercise will "disproportionately divert the resources of the office" and hence, citing section 7 (9) of rti act, 2005, the details were denied to chaturvedi. in the same, communication, prime minister office also refused to divulge information about black money brought from abroad, saying that disclosure of this information would affect investigation of sit into black money and hence, citing section 8(1)(h) and section 24 of rti act, which provides exemption from disclosure of information when investigation is pending and provides exemption to certain intelligence organizations from rti act, respectively, the information was denied to chaturvedi. this denial by pmo particularly on issue of black money created huge uproar with even ally of ruling bhartiya janta party, namely, shiv sena criticizing the denial in an editorial written in their party's mouth piece 'samna' saying that with this denial, mystery of black money has deepened further. in an interview with website rediff, he termed the fight against corruption as second freedom struggle. his struggle against corruption has been highlighted by various publications from time to time as a case study.
sanjiv chaturvedi