Political parties in Sikkim
Major national-level parties[edit]
- Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee (SPCC)[1]
- Bharatiya Janata Party, Sikkim Unit[2]
Major Regional Parties[edit]
Minor national-level parties[edit]
- Trinamool Congress (TMC)[5]
- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)[6]
Minor Regional Parties[edit]
- Sikkim Progressive Alliance (SPA)
- Sikkim Sangram Parishad (SSP)
- Sikkim Rajya Manch Party (SRMP) led by Rup Narayan Chamling
- Sikkim National People’s Party (SNPP) led by Delay Namgyal Barfungpa
- Sikkim United Front Party (SUFP) led by Narendra Adhikari
- Hamro Sikkim Party (HSP)
- Organization of Sikkimese Unity (OSU)
- Sikkim Independent Front (SIF)
- Sikkim Gorkha Party (SGP)
- Sikkim Scheduled Caste League (SSCL)
- Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF)
- Sikkim Republican Party (SRP)
- Sikkim National Liberation Front (SNLF)
- Sikkim Gorkha Prajatantrik Party (SGPP)
Defunct Parties[edit]
- Sikkim National Party
- Rajya Praja Sammelan (RPS) {merged with Sikkim National Congress in 1962}
- Sikkim Swatantra Dal (SSD) {merged with Sikkim National Congress in 1962}
- Sikkim State Congress (SSC) {merged with Sikkim Janata Congress in 1972}
- Sikkim Janata Party (SJP) {merged with Sikkim Janata Congress in 1972}
- Sikkim Janata Congress (SJC) {merged with Sikkim National Congress in 1973}
- Sikkim National Congress (SNC) {merged with Indian National Congress in 1975}
- Sikkim Janata Parishad (SJP) {merged with Indian National Congress in 1982}
- Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) (SCR)
- Sikkim Himali Congress (SHC)
- Sikkim Prajatantra Congress (SPC)
- Rising Sun Party (RIS)
- Denzong Peoples Chogpi (DPC)
- Sikkim Ekta Manch (SEM) {merged with Indian National Congress in 1998}
- Sikkim Janashakti Party (SJP) {merged with Indian National Congress in 1999}
- Nepali Bhutia Lepcha (NEBULA) {merged with Trinamool Congress in 2013}
- Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad (SHRP) {merged with Indian National Congress in 2014}
References[edit]
- ↑ Livemint (18 August 2021). "Congress appoints Ajoy Kumar in-charge of Sikkim, Nagaland, Tripura". mint. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ↑ DelhiAugust 13, India Today Web Desk New; August 13, 2019UPDATED; Ist, 2019 14:17. "Boost for BJP: 10 MLAs of Sikkim Democratic Front join party, danger ahead for ex-CM Pawan Chamling". India Today. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "SDF wins Sikkim's lone Lok Sabha seat". Deccan Herald. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ↑ Singh, Shiv Sahay (24 October 2019). "Golay wins, BJP-SKM alliance sweeps bypoll in Sikkim". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ↑ "Trinamool Congress launches its Sikkim unit". The Economic Times. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ↑ "NCP could provide a viable alternative in Sikkim". The Indian Express. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2021.