How Modi Government and Election Commission Provided Safety Net for Convicted Ally

Prem Singh Tamang Golay was convicted of corruption and should have been disqualified from contesting an election for six years. But the Narendra Modi-led Union government repealed a key clause in the Representation of the People Act, allowing the BJP ally to become Sikkim’s chief minister.

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