Sikkim Legislative Assembly
| Legislative Assembly of Sikkim (India) | |
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| 7th Assembly | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
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Speaker
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Kedar Nath Rai, SDF
Since 27 May, 2014 |
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Deputy Speaker
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Sonam Gyatso Lepcha, SDF
Since 27 May, 2014 |
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Chief Minister
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Leader of Opposition
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Prem Singh Tamang, SKM
Since 2014 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 32 |
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Political groups
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| Elections | |
| First-past-the-post | |
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Last election
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April, 2014 |
| Meeting place | |
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| The Sikkim State Assembly | |
| Website | |
| Sikkim Assembly | |
The Sikkim Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Sikkim state in north-eastern India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Gangtok, the capital of the state.
As of 2014, the assembly has been constituted seven times.
There are 32 members in a legislative assembly. There are two seats reserved for scheduled castes (SC), 12 for scheduled tribes (BL) out of 32 seats. These scheduled tribes include ethnic tribes such as Bhutia, Lepcha, Sherpa communities as specified during the merger of the kingdom of sikkim (monarchy) into India making it the 22nd state of the Indian republic in 1975, setting up a democracy within the state. One Sangha seat is reserved for 2900 monks of over 100 monasteries.
The seventh assembly was elected in 2014. The current members of legislative assembly are listed below:
The government of sikkim in power at present is Sikkim Democratic Front of which Dr Pawan Kumar chamling is president and has been in power sin 1994 till date he is the also the leader of the house in the constituent Assembly.
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