Thursday, January 16, 2014

Lachung holds Pipon elections

GANGTOK, 08 Jan: The election to the traditional seat of Pipon for Lachung was held on 02 January. Unlike the last time this election went on smoothly and resulted in two Pipons being elected from the two blocks in Lachung. L Tshering Lachungpa was elected as Pipon in Lema block and Phurpu Tshering Lachungpa was elected Pipon of Khedum block. The elections were conducted at the Thomchi School ground by Chulimba of Lachung gumpa. Both were elected unanimously. In the last elections there were two contenders claiming to have been elected from one of the blocks and the RMD department had been required to step in.

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