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	Chamling was born in Yangang, [[South Sikkim]] to Nepali parents Ash Bahadur Chamling and ~~Ash~~ Rani Chamling. Chamling is also a prolific [[Nepali language]] writer, and recipient of the ''Bhanu Puraskar'' (2010) awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad. He writes under the pen name Pawan Chamling ''Kiran''. Mr. Chamling has two wives and 8 children (4 sons and 4 daughters).<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/apr/29/sikkims-pawan-chamling-becomes-longest-serving-chief-minister-surpasses-former-west-bengal-chief-m-1807917.html\|title=Sikkim's Pawan Chamling is the longest serving Chief Minister, surpassing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|date=\|title=Chamling's Family Wealth Swells by 80%\|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/chamlings-family-wealth-swells-by-80/657798\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-02-12\|website=[[Outlook India\|outlookindia]]}}</ref>		Chamling was born in Yangang, [[South Sikkim]] to Nepali parents Ash Bahadur Chamling and Asha Rani Chamling. Chamling is also a prolific [[Nepali language]] writer, and recipient of the ''Bhanu Puraskar'' (2010) awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad. He writes under the pen name Pawan Chamling ''Kiran''. Mr. Chamling has two wives and 8 children (4 sons and 4 daughters).<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/apr/29/sikkims-pawan-chamling-becomes-longest-serving-chief-minister-surpasses-former-west-bengal-chief-m-1807917.html\|title=Sikkim's Pawan Chamling is the longest serving Chief Minister, surpassing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|date=\|title=Chamling's Family Wealth Swells by 80%\|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/chamlings-family-wealth-swells-by-80/657798\|url-status=live\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-02-12\|website=[[Outlook India\|outlookindia]]}}</ref>

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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Pawan Kumar Chamling
| image = PawanKumarChamling.jpg
| caption = Chamling in June 2016
| office = 5th [[List of Chief Ministers of Sikkim|Chief Minister of Sikkim]]
| term_start = 12 December 1994
| term_end = 26 May 2019
| predecessor = [[Sanchaman Limboo]]
| successor = [[Prem Singh Tamang]]
| office1 = [[Leader of the Opposition]] in [[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]]
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = [[Prem Singh Tamang]]
| term_start1 = 3 June 2019
| term_end1 = 13 August 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Prem Singh Tamang]]
| successor1 =
| constituency1 = [[Namchi-Singhithang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Namchi-Singhithang]]
| office2 = Member of [[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]]
| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = [[Prem Singh Tamang]]
| term_start2 = 3 June 2019
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 = ''Himself''
| successor2 =
| constituency2 = [[Namchi-Singhithang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Namchi-Singhithang]]
| term_start3 = 8 March 1985
| term_end3 = 11 December 1994
| 1blankname3 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata3 = [[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]],<br />[[Sanchaman Limboo]]
| predecessor3 = Pradeep Yanzone
| successor3 = ''Himself''
| constituency3 = [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1949|9|22}}
| birth_place = [[Yangang]], [[Kingdom of Sikkim]]<br/>{{smaller|(present-day [[Sikkim]], [[India]])}}
| party = [[Sikkim Democratic Front]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| spouse = Dhan Maya Chamling <br /> Tika Maya Chamling
| profession = {{hlist|Writer|politician}}
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| children = 8
| website = {{URL|http://pawanchamling.in/}}
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'''Pawan Kumar Chamling''' (born 22 September 1949) is an Indian politician and the former [[Chief Minister of Sikkim]].<ref name="zeenews">{{cite news| url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/north-east/sikkim-budget-session-from-25-june_781560.html| title=Sikkim budget session from 25 June| work=[[Zee News]]| date=13 June 2012| agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]]| access-date=7 November 2012| location=[[Gangtok]]}}</ref><ref name="nic">{{cite web | url=http://sikkim.nic.in/cmonline/homepage.htm | title=Pawan Chamling — The Fifth Chief Minister of Sikkim | publisher=[[National Informatics Centre]] | access-date=7 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327160435/http://sikkim.nic.in/cmonline/homepage.htm | archive-date=27 March 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Chamling is the Founder and President of the [[Sikkim Democratic Front]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/sikkim-cm-wants-bjp-chief-to-step-in/articleshow/60383450.cms|title=Sikkim CM wants BJP chief to step in|date=6 September 2017|newspaper=The Times of India|first=Chewan K|last=Dahal|access-date=30 August 2019}}</ref> which governed the state for five successive terms since 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sikkim-chief-minister-pawan-kumar-chamling-gorkhaland-interview/1/1012625.html|title=Sikkim CM Pawan Kumar Chamling: We have been let down by West Bengal}}</ref>

Chamling's 24.4 year stint (December 1994 to May 2019) is the [[List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers|longest]] ever by a chief minister of any Indian state, surpassing [[Jyoti Basu]]'s 23 years in West Bengal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sikkim's Pawan Chamling becomes longest serving Chief Minister, surpasses former West Bengal Chief M - The New Indian Express |url=https://newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/apr/29/sikkims-pawan-chamling-becomes-longest-serving-chief-minister-surpasses-former-west-bengal-chief-m-1807917.amp |access-date=12 August 2020 |website=newindianexpress.com}}</ref> Prior to establishing the Sikkim Democratic Front, Chamling served as Minister for Industries, Information and Public Relations from 1989 to 1992 in Nar Bahadur Bhandari's cabinet.

==Personal life==

Chamling was born in Yangang, [[South Sikkim]] to Nepali parents Ash Bahadur Chamling and Ash Rani Chamling. Chamling is also a prolific [[Nepali language]] writer, and recipient of the ''Bhanu Puraskar'' (2010) awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad. He writes under the pen name Pawan Chamling ''Kiran''. Mr. Chamling has two wives and 8 children (4 sons and 4 daughters).<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/apr/29/sikkims-pawan-chamling-becomes-longest-serving-chief-minister-surpasses-former-west-bengal-chief-m-1807917.html|title=Sikkim's Pawan Chamling is the longest serving Chief Minister, surpassing former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Chamling's Family Wealth Swells by 80%|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/chamlings-family-wealth-swells-by-80/657798|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-12|website=[[Outlook India|outlookindia]]}}</ref>

==Political career==

Chamling was elected as the president of Yangang Gram Panchayat in 1982. In 1985, he was elected to the [[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]] for the first time. After being elected for the second time from [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]], he became the Minister for Industries, Information and Public Relations from 1989 to 1992 in the [[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] cabinet. After a series of major political upheavals in Sikkim, Chamling formed the [[Sikkim Democratic Front]] on 4 March 1993.

Chamling is the second chief minister in India after [[Jyoti Basu]], of [[West Bengal]] to govern a state five terms in a row, with his party [[Sikkim Democratic Front]] winning the 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 [[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]] elections. His party first came to power in Sikkim after winning the 1994 Sikkim assembly elections. His popularity kept soaring in Sikkim due to his developmental work and for maintaining peace.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} [[2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|In 2009]], his party [[Sikkim Democratic Front]] won all 32 assembly seats in [[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]].

In 2012, he faced allegations of corruption and Bhandari, his predecessor as CM, predicted that Chamling would go to jail if he lost his power. <ref name=":1">{{Cite news|title=Sikkim CM Pawan Kumar Chamling dangles 'crorepati' dream|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/sikkim-cm-pawan-kumar-chamling-dangles-crorepati-dream/articleshow/33374752.cms?from=mdr|access-date=2021-02-12}}</ref> And his former comrade Tamang (Golay) developed differences with him and floated his own party. These developments created political challenge for him, but he managed to win the assembly elections of 2014, albeit with a much reduced majority.

Following win in [[2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2014 assembly election]], he was sworn in as the [[Chief Minister of Sikkim]] for the fifth consecutive time on 21 May 2014 by [[Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil]], the [[Governor of Sikkim]]. He became the chief minister for a fifth time, a record previously held by [[Jyoti Basu]] who ruled West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/chamling-sworn-in-as-sikkim-cm-for-record-fifth-time/|title=Chamling sworn in as Sikkim CM for record fifth time|agency=[[Press Trust of India]] |place=Gangtok |date=21 May 2014|access-date=21 May 2014|work=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

His party SDF won 22 out of 32 assembly seats in the 2014 legislative assembly election. 18 months after the 2014 elections, on 30 November 2015, 7 out of 10 opposition MLAs joined the SDF party under the leadership of Pawan Chamling. The ruling front had 29 out of 32 assembly seats in the state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsd.in/why-are-national-parties-shunned-in-sikkim-dangal-2019/|title=Why are national parties shunned in Sikkim? (Dangal 2019)|last=IANS|date=2019-03-22|website=News and Analysis from India. A Refreshing approach to news.|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref>

On 18 January 2016 [[Prime Minister of India]] [[Narendra Modi]] made a two-day visit to the state to declare [[Sikkim]] as the first and the only "organic state" in the country, as it has fully implemented organic farming statewide.<ref name=dna-org>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-sikkim-becomes-india-s-first-organic-state-2166492|title=Sikkim becomes India's first organic state |work=[[Daily News and Analysis]]|date=16 January 2016}}</ref>

Chamling resigned as CM after [[2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]] as former member [[Prem Singh Tamang]]'s [[Sikkim Krantikari Morcha]] party formed the government by winning 17 seats out of 32. SDF party won the remaining 15 seats. But in August 2019, 10 MLAs quit his party to join [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and in the same month two other legislators joined [[Sikkim Krantikari Morcha]]. Thus making Chamling only MLA of from the party.<ref>[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-now-main-opposition-party-in-sikkim-even-without-winning-a-single-seat/articleshow/70657139.cms?from=mdr BJP now main opposition party in Sikkim even without winning a single seat]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-08-14|title=10 SDF legislators switch over to BJP|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/10-sdf-legislators-switch-over-to-bjp/story-qKcQJuqMqn2jbnoE1juggK.html|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-08-14|title=Ten SDF MLAs join BJP: Sikkim may be headed towards Arunachal Pradesh route, as mass crossovers leave ex-CM in the lurch - Politics News , Firstpost|url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/ten-sdf-mlas-join-bjp-sikkim-may-be-headed-towards-arunachal-pradesh-route-as-mass-crossovers-leave-ex-cm-in-the-lurch-7165761.html|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Firstpost}}</ref>

=== Electoral records ===
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Year
! Constituency
! Political Party
! Result
! Position
! Votes
! % Votes
! % Margin
! Deposit
! Source
|-
| [[1985 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| [[Sikkim Sangram Parishad|SSP]]
| Won
| 1st/8
| 2,281
| 73.79
| +57.00
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3356-sikkim-1985/|publisher=ECI|access-date=18 November 2019|year=1985}}</ref>
|-
| [[1989 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
| [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| [[Sikkim Sangram Parishad|SSP]]
| Won
| 1st/2
| 4,227
| 94.27
| +88.54
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1989 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3358-sikkim-1989/|publisher=ECI|access-date=18 November 2019|year=1989}}</ref>
|-
| [[1994 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1994]]
| [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/4
| 3,904
| 70.27
| +43.93
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1994 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3360-sikkim-1994/|publisher=ECI|access-date=18 November 2019|year=1994}}</ref>
|-
| [[1999 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1999]]
| [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/3
| 4,952
| 72.26
| +45.03
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1999 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3361-sikkim-1999/|publisher=ECI|access-date=25 November 2019|year=1999}}</ref>
|-
| [[2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2004]]
| [[Damthang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Damthang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/1
| -
| -
| uncontested
| -
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2004 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3363-sikkim-2004/|publisher=ECI|access-date=18 November 2019|year=2004}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2|[[2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2009]]
| [[Poklok-Kamrang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Poklok-Kamrang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/6
| 7,379
| 80.68
| +65.12
| refunded
| <ref name=ECI2009>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2009 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3364-sikkim-2009/|publisher=ECI|access-date=31 October 2019|year=2009}}</ref>
|-
| [[Namchi-Singhithang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Namchi-Singhithang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/6
| 5,653
| 80.97
| +66.51
| refunded
| <ref name=ECI2009/>
|-
| rowspan=2|[[2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2014]]
| [[Namchi-Singhithang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Namchi-Singhithang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/3
| 4,774
| 55.08
| +12.67
| refunded
| <ref name=ECI2014>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2014 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3365-sikkim-2014/|publisher=ECI|access-date=25 November 2019|year=2014}}</ref>
|-
| [[Rangang-Yangang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rangang-Yangang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/3
| 6,343
| 63.84
| +32.23
| refunded
| <ref name=ECI2014/>
|-
| rowspan=2|[[2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2019]]
| [[Poklok-Kamrang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Poklok-Kamrang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/5
| 7,731
| 59.09
| +22.16
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite news|title=Poklok Kamrang Election Result 2019 LIVE COUNTING|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sikkim-assembly-elections/poklok-kamrang-election-results-2019-s21a010|newspaper=Firstpost|access-date=25 November 2019|date=27 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| [[Namchi-Singhithang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Namchi-Singhithang]]
| [[Sikkim Democratic Front|SDF]]
| Won
| 1st/5
| 5,054
| 50.31
| +3.75
| refunded
| <ref>{{cite news|title=Namchi Singhithang Election Result 2019 LIVE COUNTING|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sikkim-assembly-elections/namchi-singhithang-election-results-2019-s21a011|newspaper=Firstpost|access-date=25 November 2019|date=27 May 2019}}</ref>
|}

== See also ==

* [[List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers]]
* [[List of chief ministers of Sikkim]]

== References ==
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