Can Chamling break Jyoti Basu's record?

April 06, 2014 11:47

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling is set to become the country's longest serving Chief Minister transcending the late Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu if he wins this year's Assembly polls, for the fifth time in a row.

Leading the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) government since December 12, 1994, Chamling has completed 20 years as the CM of the Himalayan state, which had merged with India in 1975.

Basu had created a record of the longest serving chief minister by holding the post in West Bengal for more than 23 years from June 21, 1977 to November 5, 2000 when CPI(M) replaced him with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

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