GANGTOK, 03 Feb: Rebel SDF legislator Prem Singh Tamang [Golay] is expected to formally announce his own regional political outfit at Singling in West Sikkim on Monday. With the party announcement lined up, his supporters still in the Sikkim Democratic Front have begun tendering their resignations. In this series of resignations, Prahalad Bhattarai and Tara Prasad Bhattarai of Namcheybong constituency also quit SDF on Saturday. It is informed that Mr. Bhattarai was a CEC member and Tara Prasad Bhattarai has a primary membership.
Similarly, Chewang Dadul Bhutia of Arithang constituency also submitted his resignation from both of his active and ordinary posts from the SDF party. It is informed that he joined the party on 03 April 2004. There have also been some resignations from Jortehang, the Golay camp informs.
Meanwhile, according to close aides of Mr. Tamang, 04 Feb was recommended as the best astrological date for the formation of the new party. The party, it may be recalled was supposed to have been launched last October, but kept getting postponed. There is no turning back for the promoters of the new party any more since formal invitations have already been sent out along with public appeals. What remains to be see however is the composition of the new outfit and what position Mr. Tamang will take in it.
Sources inform that the party’s flag and central executive committee members will be announced on Monday, along with issues that the party plans to take up immediately.
A close aide of Mr. Tamang further informs that the party will maintain one-person, one-post rule and that the constitution has also been drafted in the same lines. It is learnt that a ‘strong step’ against the proposed repeal of Registration of Companies (Sikkim) Act 1961 will be announced on Monday as well.
Sources further inform that the constitution-level branches of the new party were to be established simultaneously, however, since supporters from different areas were keen to attend the party announcement function at Singling, this has been withheld for two days.
Similarly, Chewang Dadul Bhutia of Arithang constituency also submitted his resignation from both of his active and ordinary posts from the SDF party. It is informed that he joined the party on 03 April 2004. There have also been some resignations from Jortehang, the Golay camp informs.
Meanwhile, according to close aides of Mr. Tamang, 04 Feb was recommended as the best astrological date for the formation of the new party. The party, it may be recalled was supposed to have been launched last October, but kept getting postponed. There is no turning back for the promoters of the new party any more since formal invitations have already been sent out along with public appeals. What remains to be see however is the composition of the new outfit and what position Mr. Tamang will take in it.
Sources inform that the party’s flag and central executive committee members will be announced on Monday, along with issues that the party plans to take up immediately.
A close aide of Mr. Tamang further informs that the party will maintain one-person, one-post rule and that the constitution has also been drafted in the same lines. It is learnt that a ‘strong step’ against the proposed repeal of Registration of Companies (Sikkim) Act 1961 will be announced on Monday as well.
Sources further inform that the constitution-level branches of the new party were to be established simultaneously, however, since supporters from different areas were keen to attend the party announcement function at Singling, this has been withheld for two days.
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