{"id":14150,"date":"2024-06-10T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.websitemodel.co.in\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2024-06-10T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:48:17","slug":"skm-chief-prem-singh-tamang-sworn-in-as-sikkim-cm-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/skm-chief-prem-singh-tamang-sworn-in-as-sikkim-cm-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"SKM chief Prem Singh Tamang sworn in as Sikkim CM for second term\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GANGTOK: Prem Singh Tamang, the president of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), took the oath as the chief minister of the state at a ceremony held at Paljor Stadium here on Monday. Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamang (56), better known as P S Golay, was re-elected as the chief minister of the Himalayan state for a second consecutive term. His party retained power by a landslide majority of 31 seats in the 32-member assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#cf2e2e\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), the opposition party that held power in the state for a consecutive 25 years until 2019, could secure only one seat.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Tamang, 11 cabinet ministers also took the oath. They are: Sonam Lama, Arunkumar Upreti, Samdup Lepcha, Bhim Hang Limboo, Bhojraj Rai, G T Dhungel, Puran Kumar Gurung, Pintso Namgyal Lepcha, Nar Bahadur Dahal, Raju Basnett, and Tshering Thendup Bhutia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Prem Singh Tamang on taking the oath as the CM of Sikkim. In his message, Modi wished him a fruitful tenure, saying he looks forward to working with him for Sikkim\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANGTOK: Prem Singh Tamang, the president of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), took the oath as the chief minister of the state at a ceremony held at Paljor Stadium here on Monday. Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to him.&nbsp; Tamang (56), better known as P S Golay, was re-elected as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deccandawn.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}