PM Modi wishes Chamling on completing 20 years as Sikkim CM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated Pawan Kumar Chamling on completing 20 years as the Chief Minister of Sikkim.

"I congratulate Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling on completing 20 years in office as Sikkim CM. It is truly an admirable accomplishment," Prime Minister Modi tweeted.

Pawan Kumar Chamling is the fifth and incumbent chief minister of Sikkim. One of the longest standing Chief Minsiter of India, Chamling is also the founder president of the Sikkim Democratic Front, which has governed the state for five successive terms since 1994.

Chamling is also a Nepali language writer and recipient of the Bhanu Puraskar (2010) awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad. He writes under the pen name Pawan Chamling Kiran.