Today, the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Shri Pawan Chamling called on His Excellency the Vice-President of India, Shri VenkaihNaidu today at his official residence in New Delhi.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister congratulated and offered his felicitation to him on assuming the office of Vice-President.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister apprised him about the development taking place in Sikkim and sought his guidance and intervention to address the following pending demands of the people of Sikkim:
1. The issue of grant of Assembly seats to the new Scheduled Tribes Sikkimese communities of Limbu and Tamang is pending for last many years. The same right of the two communities may be granted well before the Assembly election in Sikkim;
2. The pending issue of permitting His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa to visit Sikkim and allow HH to take his seat at Rumtek Monastery
3. The 11 left-out Sikkimese communities have been requesting for recognition as Scheduled Tribes as in the erstwhile regime of the Chogyalthey were entitled to equal facilities with other communities of Sikkim.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister was accompanied by Shri Somnath Poudyal and Shri Ugen T. Gyatso, State Ministers of Agriculture and Tourism.
IPR
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