For the first time in 40 years… Sikkim's former chief minister Pawan Kumar Samling lost the assembly elections.

The Sikkim assembly election has created a lot of excitement. Pawan Kumar Samling, who was the chief minister of the state for 5 times, has met with a disastrous defeat. This is the first time in 40 years that Samling has missed the assembly. He had to suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of his disciple-turned archenemy Prem Singh Tamang. The Sikkim Kranthikari Morcha (SKM) won 31 out of 32 seats in the Sikkim Assembly election results announced on Sunday. Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) got only one seat. Samling, the 73-year-old SDF leader, contested two elections and lost both. According to a PTI report, Chamling's political downfall, once vocal on state issues, began five years ago. The 2019 assembly elections brought an end to the 25-year rule of the Sikkim Kranthikari Morcha Samling in one fell swoop. After this, he got another big shock when 10 STF MLAs joined BJP and two MLAs joined SKM. Party leaders and workers also walked out and due to the defection of MLAs, only Samling remained from the SDF side in the assembly. Before the elections, SKM and BJP recruited SDF workers to their side at the grassroots level. Even former Indian football captain Baisung Bhatia joining the SDF did not improve the party's prospects and leaders kept switching parties. About Samling who was the Chief Minister of Sikkim State for 25 years, we can say that he was the Chief Minister of Sikkim for about 25 years. Chamling's stature in Sikkimese politics can be gauged from the fact that he was Chief Minister of the state for more than 23 years of Jyoti Basu. Basu was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. Like Basu, Chamling has brought his party to power five times from 1994 to 2019.