Gangtok
4 Sep 2013
Marking an end to his more than two
decades of association with the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front,
dissident MLA Prem Singh Tamang today formally resigned from the party.
Tamang aka Golay sent his 14-page resignation to the SDF chief and chief
minister Pawan Chamling.
The three-term minister, and now the
lone rebel legislator, slammed the Chamling- led party alleging it of
massive corruption and dilution of Sikkim’s old laws in spite of them
being guaranteed by Article 371F of the Constitution. The MLA also
accused Chamling of failing to deliver on his ‘pro-poor’ promises he had
made before seizing power in 1994.
Golay had been openly criticizing
Chamling and the CM’s style of functioning ever since winning on a SDF
ticket from Upper Burtuk constituency in the 2009 assembly elections.
Now, he is most likely to steer the opposition Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
that was formed in February 4.
The SDF had long been daring Golay to
quit from his post as he doing so would make his seat vacant on the
basis of the disqualification clause laud down in the Anti-Defection
law.
The MLA’s entry into active politics on
the anti-incumbency plank is likely to bother the SDF in the assembly
polls to be held around April next year.
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