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EC cuts short disqualification term of Sikkim CM Tamang
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- Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang’s disqualificationhas been sharply reduced to just a year and a month by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
- He was Barred by law fromcontesting elections for six years after completing his one-year prison termin a graft case in 2018.
- The case pertained to his tenure as State Animal Husbandry Minister.
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- In their order, Chief Election Commissionerreduced Mr. Tamang’s period of disqualification, citing Section 11 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which allows the ECI to reduce or remove disqualification “for reasons to be recorded.
- The ECI’s order said the “alleged offencefor which the SKM leader had been convicted in 2016 went back to 1996-1997, when the minimum punishment of two yearswould lead to disqualification under the RP Act.
- The order noted that Mr. Tamang had been sentenced to one year imprisonment on December 26, 2016, and that the section of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, under which he was convicted, had been omitted in an amendment in 2018. He completed the one-year sentence on August 10, 2018.
Source
The Hindu