Denying Ashish Rai a ticket in 2019 cost us the election: Pawan Chamling

Gangtok, 20 Sept:

For the first time, SDF Chief Pawan Chamling confessed that not giving a ticket to youth leader Ashish Rai was a great blunder, and because of that SDF failed to form the government and 2019 was a winning-loss for us, we have accepted the mistake but now we will not repeat the same mistake. In 2024 we will not repeat the mistake of 2019, that was our last mistake we won't repeat and joining of Ashish Rai is homecoming for us and the advent of Ashish Rai has brought us a good vibe. Ashish Rai was our youth leader because of our mistake and we couldn't give him a ticket and because of that, we came out of power. We are gathered here to save Sikkim and Sikkimese people, we want to make Sikkim Malik( Owner). Ashish Rai joined the party today.

The 2024 election is not an ordinary election, it is the last opportunity to save Sikkim. Appeals karyakartas to start their work as there is a lack of time. Not to go for groups and we have to make SDF win. Chamling was addressing a mass joining event wherein more than 700 joined the SDF party. SDF chief Pawan Chamling in his address at first welcomed all the new joiners and announced his acceptance of the new joiners.