SKM grabbed a toal of 31 of the 32 assembly seats, alongside winning the lone Lok Sabha seat for the state.

The 35-year-old incumbent MP garnered 1,64,396 votes, comfortably outpacing Basnett, who received 83,566 votes.

The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), erstwhile ruling party for 25 years until 2019, is embarking on the elections under a new avatar termed SDF 2.0.

The Sikkim CM highlighted that this allocation would cover salary payments for contractual and ad hoc employees, with Rs 250 crores already earmarked for this purpose.