Total Recall: How Modi Government and Election Commission Provided Safety Net for Convicted Ally

Mon, 27 March 2023

09:46

Prem Singh Tamang Golay was convicted of corruption and should have been disqualified from contesting an election for six years. But the Narendra Modi-led Union government repealed a key clause in the Representation of the People Act, allowing the BJP ally to become Sikkim's chief minister. Read the report here.

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