Sikkim Krantikari Morcha

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
AbbreviationSKM
ChairmanPrem Singh Tamang
Parliamentary ChairpersonIndra Hang Subba
Lok Sabha LeaderIndra Hang Subba
TreasurerPravin Kr Agarwal
FounderPrem Singh Tamang
Founded4 February 2013; 11 years ago (2013-02-04)
Split fromSikkim Democratic Front
HeadquartersGhaley Compound, Tibet Road, Gangtok – 737101, Sikkim, India.
Student wingSKM Students' Wing
Youth wingSKM Youth Wing
Women's wingSKM Women's Wing
Labour wingSKM Labour Wing
Peasant's wingSKM Agriculture Wing
IdeologyConservativism (India)
Sikkimese nationalism
Regionalism
Political positionCentre-right
Colours  Red
ECI StatusState party[1]
AllianceNDA (2019–present)[2]
NEDA (2019–present)
Seats in Lok Sabha
1 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in Sikkim Legislative Assembly
32 / 32
Number of states and union territories in government
1 / 32
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
www.sikkimkrantikarimorcha.org

Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (translation: Sikkim Revolutionary Front) is a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim which is the ruling party of Sikkim since 2019.

P.S. Golay, a member of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, was one of the prominent figures of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) and was a minister in the government of Sikkim. Since December 2009 he has been a vocal critic of Pawan Kumar Chamling, the President of the SDF and the former chief minister of Sikkim.[3] He started the party Sikkim Krantikari Morcha on 4 February 2013. Golay became the Chief Minister of Sikkim on 28 May 2019, thus ending the 25-year-rule of Chamling.[4][5] In 2024 general elections Sikkim Krantikari Morcha party secure massive victory of 31 seats out of 32, later in the month of July 2024 the sole MLA of opposition Sikkim Democratic Front Tenzing Norbu Lamtha also joined to Sikkim Krantikari Morcha making opposition less Sikkim Legislative Assembly.

  1. ^ "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  2. ^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (26 May 2019). "SKM stakes claim to govt., joins NDA". The Hindu. Kolkata. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  3. ^ Himalayan Mirror, 5 February 2013, p.1. Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine (pdf)
  4. ^ "Who is P.S. Golay, the new chief minister of Sikkim". The Hindu. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  5. ^ "New Sikkim Chief Minister PS Golay announced 5-day working week for government employees". India Today. 28 May 2019.